Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Southern Drought

 Most of the southern United States is in some level of drought again.  Yeesh.  This does bad things to farming in those areas, along with hindering people's efforts to grow their own food in gardens.  No rain and broiling temperatures just kill the plants.
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  • 7 comments
msstacy13

msstacy13

June 16 2011, 18:03:06 UTC 10 years ago

We're doing everything we can to send water downstream,
but I guess that won't be a lot of help...
ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

June 16 2011, 18:08:31 UTC 10 years ago

It may help a little. But really, we've damaged the hydrological cycle so badly that it's failing out in a lot of places, regularly. Drought was the first form of habitat foreclosure, and humans are not exempt from that effect.

What we really need to do is fix some of the large-scale changes we made: replant forests, reactivate marshes, etc.
fayanora

fayanora

June 16 2011, 23:10:52 UTC 10 years ago

I live in Portland, Oregon. They can have some of our rain. Nearly July and it's still cold and wet outside!
poeticknowledge

poeticknowledge

June 17 2011, 16:43:13 UTC 10 years ago

Yes, please! That sounds very, very nice right now! lol :) With all the scorching temperatures here, that would be a relief! :D
judifilksign

judifilksign

June 17 2011, 01:30:23 UTC 10 years ago

And in Ohio, May had the most rainfall and coolest temperatures on record, beating measurements collected in the 1890s.

Much of the corn crop never got planted because of the rain, flooding and residual mud. Corn in the south withered with drought. What corn there is will be expensive, and my farmer friends say that the fuel contracts are fulfilled *first*, making food prices soar.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

June 17 2011, 05:42:01 UTC 10 years ago

There are fields here that were planted 2 or 3 times and still have dead spots from flooding. Used to be, the spring rains came mostly prior to planting time. Now the spring rains are all but gone, and we have some summer floods, which overlap the growing season. Not a good thing. It's worse in our immediate area because we live on reclaimed swampland, which periodically makes a bid for re-establishing itself.
poeticknowledge

poeticknowledge

June 17 2011, 16:42:08 UTC 10 years ago

Yep! That would be correct and how scorching it's been here lately! I'm glad the air conditioning in my car is being fixed today. lol :)