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To: muawiyah

That takes the meaning of drought to a whole new level. A drought actually infers that the event is temporary. 200 years is not temporary. That’s actually misrepresented, let alone thousands to millions of year.


38 posted on 12/05/2012 1:07:47 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: SgtHooper
Just looked up a bunch of definitions ~ nothing temporary about a drought ~ simply that it is prolonged.

I think you are looking for the term "prolonged", which a drought can be ~ some definitions suggest it's a prolonged period of abnormally low precipitation ~ but unless prolonged is defined, the Sahara is in a drought ~ a very long one in fact. Goes on for 100,005 years, with a 5,000 year break.

An 80 year drought cycle is pretty normal for the US ~ and it would be wrong to suggest that just because that's "normal" that no drought exists!

39 posted on 12/05/2012 1:24:44 PM PST by muawiyah
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