Word: droughts
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...Fugitive" is by far the best movie of the summer. How's that for objectivity? But seriously, it was the best action-thriller keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat movie in a long while, and definitely welcomed relief from what could have been a very long summer drought. There has to be something to this movie if it can keep someone like me with the attention span of a gnat engaged from start to finish...
...Farm Resource Center, a mental-health outreach network, in Mound City, Illinois. "The prolonged nature of this flood is especially troublesome. We have little to refer to in the literature of disasters." But it is known that 60 years ago, after a summer of dust storms and drought, thousands of Midwesterners pulled up stakes and went west. This flood has been in some parts of Illinois since April. Whither today's refugees? Nobody is sure right...
...found evidence of sophisticated reservoir systems in Tikal and other landlocked Maya cities (some of the settlements newly discovered this week also have reservoirs). Since those cities depended on stored rainfall during the four dry months of the year, they would have been extremely vulnerable to a prolonged drought...
...flood's menacing peculiarity. It is an anomaly in the Mississippi basin that it came in July, giving farmers less time to recover than previous inundations, which almost always came in late winter or early spring. Summers in the area are usually noted for searing heat and Saharan drought rather than for rains on which Noah's ark might float...
Here a flood, there a drought. Something strange is going...