Reply #16: SCORCHED... from Carter

[white cloud]

The raindrops came and went without much evidence that they’d been here at all. They vanished, right back up into the cloud bank, if you could call it such — wispy little formations with just enough gray makeup to engender false hopes of fall showers. Such has been the story of the rain, or more accurately, the lack thereof, in the La Niña year of 2011.

Suffice it to say, most of Texas needs a drink. A long one.

According to those who pronounce such things, Texas is now officially in the midst of the driest one-year period on record and the second-longest drought in recorded history. The longest, of course, was the fabled drought of the ’50s, a time frame that my older country friends tell me I should be thankful I never knew.
http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2011/dec/atissue/