Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
Recent Comments
John on The Price Of Telling The Truth… Don Gaddes on Seven Year Drought Killed 40%… Bill Sokeland on NSIDC : Arctic Was Ice Free In… Notes To Ponder on 45 Years Since Paul Ehrlich Wa… gator69 on A Proof That Greenhouse Gas Dr… gator69 on Toto Has Moved! Menicholas on Toto Has Moved! Sir Charles on A Proof That Greenhouse Gas Dr… Sir Charles on A Proof That Greenhouse Gas Dr… Ed Darrell on Phil Jones Removing The 1940…
The Medina River in Texas was no stranger to droughtfloods.
“The river and the lake suffered through record dry periods in the 1930s and the 1950s, which were followed by the usual floods. On August 2, 1978, what was widely termed a 500-year flood came
down the Medina, an unofficial record rainfall of forty-eight inches having fallen on the North Prong in twenty-four-hours. Twenty-two lives were lost, millions of dollars of property loss or severe damage reported, and thousands of cypress and pecan trees downed.”
What was it Katherine Hayhoe was saying about once a century rainfall events?
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rnm02
Meanwhile in Sterling County-
The drought of 1883 precipitated the fence-cutting wars, a particularly violent phase of this change in land use.
3 years later-
The arrival of homesteaders in Sterling County precipitated the breakup of some of the great free-range ranches; the drought of 1886–87, which bankrupted the Half Circle S, helped to hasten their demise.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcs15
In Kermit, Texas –
but in 1916 most of the newly-settled families fled the area, seeking relief from a sweltering drought.
In Kermit, Texas –
but in 1916 most of the newly-settled families fled the area, seeking relief from a sweltering drought.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hfk02
Santa Cruz had drought for 6 years!
a large cross at the top of a hill above the community commemorates the rain that broke a drought that reportedly had lasted from 1888 until 1894. The site of the cross is known as Loma de la Cruz.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvs36