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Originally Posted by Scuba Steve
Glad to hear that TX got at least SOME rain. My parents live in Hays County and from the pictures they've sent, it looks like winter over there. Everything is yellow.
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Last weekend we drove from Corpus Christi area to Houston to Abilene and back to Corpus area. Every stock tank we could see from the road was dry and saw many areas where brush fires along the roads and in pastures had been put out. Saw absolutely no grazing for cattle, everything looks like it normally does in the middle of February.
The only thing that will remedy the above is rainfall of tropical storm proportions and that season is now over. If this drought persists through the winter (as some predict) more than a few towns and cities are going to see severe water rationing and worse.
In 1997 the TX legislature passed a master water plan for the state which was intended to address TX H20 problems for the 21st century. This was deemed critical at the time because of the projected population growth and lessons learned from the historic drought of the 1950's.
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