Word: raine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I heard there was a political rally to be held in the Zocalo later in the afternoon I resolved to go. There were several cars pulling up to the square, and a few men and women appeared to be braving the rain to express their political feelings, and I decided to enter the crowd to learn about Mexican politics...
...barley and the oats are gone," said Malard. "If we have rain soon, we can get some corn. But even some of that is shot." He watches the fields particularly in the evening, when the light is softer. "The corn is beginning to turn white," he said. "The leaves are curling. If there is no rain, if the wind keeps blowing like this, if it stays so hot, all the corn will be lost...
...there is the faint question that comes with the endless wind. How long before this drought tumbles the old records? Then what? Malard shrugs. The last good rain he felt on his face was in August 1987. In March of this year a 10-in. blizzard roared in and hit his area. He waited it out in his house, daring to hope that this was a break in the dryness and that a normal spring of rain would follow. It did not. Instead came the heat and the wind. Malard gets up every morning by 6 and checks...
...current drought has dramatized these conflicts, but it did not cause them, nor will its end resolve them. In the Midwest and Southeast, farmers watching their crops wither this summer are simply victims of lack of rain, a circumstance that should improve next year if not next month. But in the West the water shortage is not just a freak of nature. Los Angeles receives 9 in. of rainfall a year and Phoenix only 8, vs. 40 in. of precipitation for Chicago. Almost all the U.S. flatlands west of the 100th meridian, which runs from Texas to North Dakota, consistently...
...latest dry spell is devastating for farmers just recovering from a decade of low prices and high interest rates. Hugh Sidey looks at one North Dakota farmer' s fight to save his parched land. -- There is more to the water shortage in the West than lack of rain. Wasteful agriculture could slow the region' s growth. -- Is the earth growing warmer? See NATION...