A link to a magazine article about the Drought Texas just went through

This is a pic of the water tower in Benjamin, Knox Co. from 3.1 miles away. It was dry when I was working up there. I guess it's just got worse when I left.

Taken with a camera thru a 32x level.

My yard is still recovering from the several years of drought some years ago when more than half died and was bare.
Many ponds that were cleaned and made deeper are doing fine. The rest are very full of eroded soil and hsve less water supply.
The water table has fallen.
My well has maintained its level becsuse no new wells have been dug nearby.
West Texas has always been a dry area and sny rain soaks in quickly or washes away to somewhere else.

Thanks for sharing. Most of the rest of the country, population-wise, have no concept of this even being possible.

This was our Memorial day Trail Ride in 2011 at Lake Abilene. We are in what should be the lakebed, you can maybe make out the shoreline in the distance. My batteries died and I did not get a picture of the puddle that was all that was left of the lake when we rode across the dam. The smell of rotting fish was horrible.

I looked up Lake J B Thomas. It has jumped up quite a bit in the last 1 1/2 years. About 40 feet.

That is where I learned to swim in the 60's.

James

If'n you ain't the lead horse, the view never changes.