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By: DGpeddler in POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 30 Jun 11 9:56 PM | 41 view(s)
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I will be taking Mom to the doctor shortly. I am watering the rose bushes and the trees just to try to keep them alive. This is just one of them years. We have already had 27 days over 100 this year. I think we had about 5 last year. But the real problem is the rain. It is starting to look like the early 1950's all over again. We need a storm in the Gulf to move ashore and and bring us some rain. But then, it will start raining one of these days and won't stop. Two years ago it was raining in June and the cotton farmers were all crying because cotton needs hot dry weather. The middle of July turned hot (mid to high 90's) and the rain stopped. They made more cotton that year than they had ever made. You just never know.


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By: clo in POPE
Thu, 30 Jun 11 9:43 PM 		Msg. 38627 of 65535

How are you & Mom holding up? clo

Texas Drought Declared Natural Disaster


The Huffington Post First Posted: 06/29/11 01:25 PM ET Updated: 06/29/11 04:06 PM ET

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Drought and wildfires have lead to the decision by the US Department of Agriculture to declare the entire state of Texas a natural disaster.

KCBD in Lubbock reports that in all, 213 counties in Texas have lost at least 30 percent of their crops or pasture.

The disaster declaration will allow farmers and ranchers to qualify for emergency loans at lower interest rates.

"This is a disaster," Texas farmer Scott Harmon said. "This is a train wreck."

Mike Swain, who farms south of Brownfield, told the Lubbock Avalanche Journal that loans aren't what he's looking for.

"I will be real honest, I don't need a loan - I need rain," Swain said.

Ranchers have also been hurt by the drought, Swain noted.

"A lot of people have lost their livestock, their homes, their fencing," he said.

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