Friday, July 13, 2012

How Bad Is It?

This headline sez it all: "U.S. Declares the Largest Natural Disaster Area Ever Due to Drought."  That's pretty bad.  Note:


The entire states of Arizona, Nevada, Texas, and New Mexico (save two counties in TX and NM), are still in drought... as is most of the southwest and Deep South.  I've never seen it this bad in my lifetime; I've only seen pictures of the Dust Bowl years, when it was worse.  Let's hope it doesn't get THAT bad again.
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4 comments:

  1. (not necessarily your) Uncle Skip13 July, 2012 13:22

    We've had worse here, but I see the county's included.

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    1. Buck13 July, 2012 13:41

      I figger we're into our third year o' drought here. It's bad.

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  2. Jenny15 July, 2012 06:53

    Actually, I think this is as bad or worse than dust bowl years. But due to better farming practices and the crp programs, we don't have the huge dust bowl effect as it did in the 30's. My farm has only receiver 1.25" of rain this YEAR.

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    1. Buck15 July, 2012 14:01

      Wow. We've had t-storms in our forecast quite often this past week, with little to no results. It's the same story today...

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