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THE GREAT DROUGHT OF 2011 Is America's Worst Since The Dust Bowl
Business Insider ^ | 07/12/2011 | Robert Johnson

Posted on 07/12/2011 7:09:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Fourteen states are suffering from a drought so early and severe that it's already causing comparisons with the dust bowl years of the 1930's.

According to a story in The New York Times, farmers are running wells dry, crops aren't growing and livestock can't be fed.

“It’s horrible so far,” said Mike Newberry, a Georgia farmer who is trying grow cotton, corn and peanuts on a thousand acres. “There is no description for what we’ve been through since we started planting corn in March.”

David Miskus with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the reason for the drought is simple. "A strong La Niña shut off the southern pipeline of moisture.”

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: drought; dustbowl

1 posted on 07/12/2011 7:09:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It was pretty bad at 8:07 this morning, too.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2747239/posts


2 posted on 07/12/2011 7:14:51 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: SeekAndFind

This is why I will never ever leave the temperate climate of the Pacific Northwest. Temperature extremes are uncommon, and it rains when it is supposed too, and is sunny and warm the other two months.

Oh and we have had one of the coldest and wettist winters on record here. With over 60 feet of snow in the mountains, the last ski resort closes after this weekend. They usualy close in late March.


3 posted on 07/12/2011 7:22:22 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: NavyCanDo

so, how do you have the worst drought and a bumper crop in corn at the same time????


4 posted on 07/12/2011 7:40:33 AM PDT by bioqubit
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To: humblegunner

LOL

You are cold.

LOL


5 posted on 07/12/2011 7:49:52 AM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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Today is the first day of water use restrictions here in Norman, Oklahoma. My husband and I are currently trying to parse the seemingly self-contradictory new rules.


6 posted on 07/12/2011 8:06:28 AM PDT by Coyote Choir
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To: SeekAndFind

La Nina, blamed for U.S. South drought, may revive this autumn
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/07/us-weather-lanina-idUSTRE76645320110707


7 posted on 07/12/2011 8:16:56 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: SeekAndFind

If those in the southwest are willing to quickly dig a canal to their states they can have at least half of the water we are currently dealing with here in the central states. The seasonal drought ended here a while back.


8 posted on 07/12/2011 8:39:05 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

dig a canal from where? across the Rockies?

towing icebergs up the Rio Grande makes more sense..


9 posted on 07/12/2011 2:07:36 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: RitchieAprile

It was a joke! They are in a drought right now while our drought has ended and we’re experiencing flood waters and we wish someone else had our excess.

Sheesh!


10 posted on 07/12/2011 2:35:01 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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