Word: hydrologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...declared 29 counties disaster areas. At the Texas- Oklahoma border, waters rushing out of overfilled Lake Texoma ravaged a popular summer restaurant-disco-and-marina complex. By the weekend the unruly Trinity was menacing East Texas with still larger troubles. "The river's going crazy," said National Weather Service hydrologist Ernest Cathey in Fort Worth. As it inundated immense swaths of ranchland, stranding herds of livestock and driving out hundreds of families, the Trinity at times looked like a vast lake. To people in its path, especially in Liberty County, 50 miles or so northeast of Houston, officials issued...
Storm rising -- political and natural. Bush can smell it and view it on every horizon. The old planet is sagging more than ever from its burdens of people and pollution, and it no longer takes a hydrologist or climatologist to detect it. Every American can see it in the air. You can stand with Nancy Reagan on the lawn of her sun-drenched Bel Air home above Beverly Hills and see a sinister tongue of smog lick out and engulf the office where her husband works just three miles below. Or you can walk along the low hills of North...