Texas Drought 2011

In The Aftermath Of Drought, 'Mother Nature Won Once Again'

AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 05.25.2012

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ELKHART, Texas (AP) — Linda Galayda hauled water and flagged down truck drivers to ask about their hay. She sold calves and young cows and made her ...

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Texas Drought Cost $2 Billion More Than Previously Thought

AP | Posted 03.22.2012

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HOUSTON -- Agriculture officials say losses from Texas' historic drought are more than $2 billion more than previously thought. The Texas AgriLife Ex...

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Lingering Effects Of Texas Drought

AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 05.01.2012

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MAD ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Strange things are aloft in the bird world. Endangered whooping cranes flew 2,500 miles from Canada to Texas...

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Texas Drought Killed 5.6 Million Urban Shade Trees

Reuters | Posted 04.17.2012

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By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Some 5.6 million urban shade trees were killed by the record drought that baked Texas ...

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A 'Drought Survival Kit' For Suffering Texas Homeowners

AP | By BETSY BLANEY | Posted 01.31.2012

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LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texans watched disaster unfold slowly last year as a historic drought took a withering toll across the region. Trees died by the mi...

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Texas Town Relying On Tanker Trucks For Water

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 04.01.2012

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SPICEWOOD, Texas (AP) — Tanker trucks loaded with water have become the lifeline for a Texas lakefront village that came precariously close to becom...

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A Record-Breaking Year For Texas

Reuters | Posted 03.10.2012

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By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas , Jan 7 (Reuters) - It's official: 2011 was the driest year on record in Texas, according to the ...

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Millions Of Trees Lost In Texas Drought

AP | Posted 12.20.2011

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- A preliminary state estimate says as many as a half-billion trees died this year across Texas from the drought persisting ac...

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Texas Drought Takes Cow Numbers Down By 600K

AP | BETSY BLANEY | Posted 02.15.2012

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LUBBOCK, Texas — The worst drought in Texas' history has led to the largest-ever one-year decline in the leading cattle-state's cow herd, raisin...

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Texas Drought 2011: Conditions Are Improving

AP | Posted 12.08.2011

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LUBBOCK, Texas -- Recent rains in parts of Texas have led to less than half of the state being in the worst category of drought for the first time sin...

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Texas Towns Find Fast Solutions To Water Problems

AP | By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 02.04.2012

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GROESBECK, Texas -- In a tranquil state park in Central Texas, workers are busily piecing together massive yellow pipes that spell salvation for this ...

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Christmas Tree Farmers Struggle After Historic Drought

AP | By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 01.25.2012

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NEW CANEY, Texas -- Dry, brown grass crunches underfoot as David Barfield walks through his 45-acre Christmas tree farm pointing at evergreens covered...

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Drought Leaves Slim Pickings For Migrating Birds

AP | By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 11.21.2011

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- From nesting grounds in Alaska and Idaho to the prairie potholes in Canada, thousands of sandhill cranes, snow geese and other mi...

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Drought Exposes Ghost Towns, Graves In Texas

AP | By MICHAEL GRACZYK and ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 11.21.2011

BLUFFTON, Texas -- Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago. His grave slipped from sight along with the rest o...

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Texas Drought Endangers Power Projects

AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 01.02.2012

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BAY CITY, Texas — Ever since the days of Spindletop, when oil first spewed from the soil near Beaumont, Texans have embraced the energy industry...

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Texas Drought: 'Tough Choices' Ahead For The Thirsty State, Water Experts Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.07.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas -- On Thursday evening, Austin's local Fox News weatherman Scott Fisher gave his viewers a welcome forecast: a "big time" chance of rain...

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Last Of Fire-Weary Texans Allowed To Return Home

AP | Posted 11.16.2011

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BASTROP, Texas -- Officials say the last of thousands of central Texas residents forced to flee a massive and devastating wildfire have been allowed t...

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Extreme Weather: For Once, Al Gore's Excellent Timing

National Journal | Ronald Brownstein | Posted 11.15.2011

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Al Gore hasn’t always demonstrated impeccable political instincts, but his timing was right as rain this week when he organized a worldwide extravag...

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Texas Faces Months Of More Dry Weather

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 11.15.2011

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WASHINGTON — The outlook for the next three months is bad news for drought-plagued Texas and its neighbors. And that comes after the Lone Star ...

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INTERACTIVE PHOTO: Before And After The Texas Wildfire

Posted 11.12.2011

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Texas is dry. Really dry. This has been the worst drought in Texas since the 1950's, and the drought has been a perfect breeding ground for wildfi...

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Texas Wildfires Destroy More Than 1,000 Homes

AP | JIM VERTUNO and MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 11.05.2011

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BASTROP, Texas — One of the most devastating wildfire outbreaks in Texas history left more than 1,000 homes in ruins Tuesday and stretched the s...

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Raging Texas Wildfires Destroy Hundreds Of Homes

AP | WILL WEISSERT and MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 11.05.2011

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BASTROP, Texas — A roaring wildfire raced through rain-starved farm and ranchland in Central Texas on Monday, destroying nearly 500 homes during...

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Texas Drought: 'We Can't Catch A Break'

AP | By PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 10.18.2011

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ROBERT LEE, Texas (AP) -- Ranchers in pickup trucks here stop to ladle up puddles of street water after underground pipes crack, and wilting trees are...

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Texas Drought Recalls Long, Punishing Dry Spell Of 1950's

AP | By ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 10.14.2011

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FORT WORTH, Texas -- After enduring nearly a year of drought, Texans have grown accustomed to seeing acres of withered crops, scores of dried-up ponds...

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Texas Drought Will Harm Wildlife Habitat For Years

AP | By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 10.08.2011

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CANADIAN, Texas -- In a muddy pile of sand where a pond once flowed in the Texas Panhandle, dead fish, their flesh already decayed and feasted on by m...

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