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...released "Stranded"; Ted Nugent's Damn Yankees proved they had the genre down with the top 10 hit "High Enough"; Winger's second album sold millions on the strength of the forgotten "Miles Away," and the Nelson twins teamed up to bring us "Love and Affection" and "After the Rain...
From Saskatchewan to Texas, from Montana to Ohio hardly any rain had fallen for a month. As dry day followed dry day crop estimators lopped 2,000,000 bu. from their wheat prediction every morning. Before the week was out the winter wheat estimate had fallen...
...Washington these were dry statistics, but in the Midwest, disastrous facts. In North Dakota, which had barely an inch of rain in four months, there was no grass for cattle. Farmers tramped their dusty fields watching their dwarfed grain shrivel and perish. A baking sun raised temperatures to 90[degrees], to 100[degrees]. And still no rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average: 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions...
Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages, the bells began to toll. In Caracas, Venezuela, a lone Marine sergeant strode across the lawn of the U.S. embassy while a soft rain fell, saluted the flag, then lowered it to half-mast. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...
California cliff and canyon dwellers might as well get ready for more devastation. Up and down the coastline, hundreds of hillsides are starting to slump and slide. And the reason, say experts, is simple. Weeks of relentless rain have saturated not just the top few inches of soil but also underlying layers of bedrock, causing structural weakening deep down. By itself, waterlogged ground is a nuisance. Combined with California's mountainous terrain, says Doug Morton of the U.S. Geological Survey in Riverside, Calif., it can very quickly add up to disaster. Imagine living on the edge of a steep, quivering...