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...rainiest swath of the country is running dry, facing a specter of structural droughts. And the dike around Lake O. is leaking so badly that water managers routinely dump billions of precious gallons out of the lake to avoid a 1928-style calamity, ravaging estuaries and draining the region's water supply. This spring the lake fell so low that 40,000 acres of its exposed bottom burned out of control, along with 40,000 acres of the perennially parched Everglades National Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

October was the rainiest month in history for some areas of Texas and as a result 60 counties, mostly in the southern and central regions, have been affected by flooding...

Author: By Erica Westenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flooding Hits Home for Texans | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...Orient that the author began with The Chinese Bandit (1975) and The Last Mandarin (1979). The new book stands on its own but also adds considerably to the vivid pageant of the East that Becker has been creating. Read together, all three tales would more than compensate for the rainiest week at the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

June is not a good month for tourists in Miami. It is hot, 90° or thereabouts; it is usually the rainiest month of the year; it is the beginning of the hurricane watch; and it is graduation time for a whole new generation of mosquitoes. As a result, hotels have vacant rooms, restaurants have empty tables, and taxi drivers roam the streets looking for a beckoning hand. What is needed, obviously, is something to make people flock to the area despite the weather. Out of such logic was born the New World Festival of the Arts, Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweating It Out in Miami | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...Texas' huge production, To Broadway with Love, costs from $2 to $4.80 and is an oversized, undertalented anthology of Broadway show tunes-done by performers who seem to have been drawn from the senior class at high school. A circus playing to 35 people is one of the rainiest sights in the world, and one can see it in the Ringling tent. The circus is a good one too. Finally, the entire amusement area is ringed by American Machine & Foundry's monorail, which is a good ride but commands a view of the dreariest part of the fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: The World of Already | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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