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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Drought Now Grips More Than Half of the Nation

The nation's widest drought in decades is spreading, with more than half of the continental United States now in some stage of drought and most of the rest enduring abnormally dry conditions.

Only in the 1930s and the 1950s has a drought covered more land, according to federal figures released Monday. So far, there's little risk of a Dust Bowl-type catastrophe, but crop losses could mount if rain doesn't come soon.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's all George Bush's fault. Don't let Obama do a rain dance. It would rain down 100,000 Muslims.

Anonymous said...

The weather modification has been on-going since the 70's

Anonymous said...

Now would be a good time to clean that mud out of the lake bottom.