While the South and Midwest are having there own weather problems, the western edge of the Oklahoma has been having its own for almost a year. Boise City is having its longest drought on record, its been 222 days since its had a quarter of an inch of rainfall. That is the longest dry-spell since they began keeping track of the weather in 1908. The Dust Bowl in the 1930's hit Boise City, and the city recovered from it and has been sucessful with farming for plenty of years since. This drought is drying up the city, and the city has lost 16% of their population. People are losing jobs, moving away and dying so the town is falling apart. I think people dont look at problems like this enough. People always hear about the tornadoes but you rarely hear about droughts. These are just as harmful as the tornadoes, and we need to pay more attention to them.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/us/04dust.html?ref=earth
Yes, it seems as if people rarely pay attention to things such as droughts. Thing is though, one day, even the most rainy(excuse my lack of a better word) places can become the most dry. If we do not look at problems such as this, we are likely to be at a lost when it happens to locations where we live.
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