Looks like you might be a tad older than me. But I can stay with a fact, that I have never seen it this dry before. (in SE Texas)
If the 1957 indicates your birth year, that was the year Texas started coming out of the 56 - 58 drought. I remember the crops in the field and the corn stalks were only about 3 - 4 feet tall and nothing but nubbins instead of ears. Most stock tanks went totally dry.