TOP NEWS API reports "South Texas drought nears record levels"
Excerpts Retrieved at UPI by Pat Darnell
Atascosa County, Texas, extension service agent Joe Taylor reckoned the situation is moving past just equaling the severity of legendary droughts in the 1950s, saying, "In fact, this drought may be the drought of record before long."
The economic losses from the drought were estimated at $1 billion in March, and have since moved well past that, experts from Texas A and M University told the Express-News, and has a chance to become the sate's costliest in Texas' modern history. Without strong rains soon, they said, the tab for lost cattle and crops could climb past the $4.1 billion mark set in the 2006 drought. (Published: July 11, 2009. UPI; HERE)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says San Antonio, Texas, has experienced its driest 22-month period ever through June, with less than 24 inches of rain since September 2007, the San Antonio Express-News reported Saturday. (© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved)
Ned Butler of Mason County, Texas, said he is among those ranchers who have been forced to sell off parts of herds due to the drought's decimation of grass used in cattle grazing, USA Today reported... (Ibid; HERE)
"If we don't have rain in 60 days, we're going to have to sell some more," said rancher Len Wineheimer, who has already sold nearly 200 cows from his Stonewall, Texas, ranch.
Meteorologists estimate that the first two months of 2009 marked the driest beginning to a year in more than 100 years of recordkeeping in the United States.
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