Word: droughts
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...deep lode of mother earth to be mined by the plow, and the settlers rushed in and onto the Great Plains, once called the great American desert. The Great Plains should never have been plowed, and the size of that tragedy was only fully realized decades later when the drought-dried soil was lifted by angry storms and carried as far east as the Atlantic coast...
...least 97 years. It hardly rained at all in rainy Seattle in May. Texas in January was swamped with twice as much precipitation as normal, and Southern California, where it never rains, was socked with floodwaters so powerful they carried cars out to sea. Africa is having its worst drought in 50 years, and eastern Australia, which is supposed to have summer when the northern hemisphere has winter, had to do without this year. Instead of balmy days and bright sunshine, Melbourne racked up a record 12 consecutive days of rain and the coldest January in 137 years, which...
...time of drought and ceaseless civil wars, East Africa's refugee trails all seem to lead to Kenya. The fighting and dying along the country's borders have driven tens of thousands of starving civilians to a desperate march toward Kenya's reception centers and camps. New arrivals -- including skeletal children separated from their parents -- are crowding in at a rate that threatens to overwhelm both local and international relief organizations...
Houston had been suffering a drought for four weeks prior to the softball teams arrival. Nice weather for softball, right...
...make matters worse, the worst drought in a century has hit southern Africa this year--famine threatens to engulf the entire region. Normally a big exporter of food, South Africa will have to import four million tons of corn this year, or about two-thirds of its consumption...