it's the dust bowl, which will be followed by the greater depression. that's good, because WW2 comes right after that, and we can kick the Germans asses again, and then have a long period of economic prosperity.

i love it when history repeats itself

Except this time it's the WWT (World War on Terror) and Bashar al-Assad can play Hitler.

Are the Germans going to bomb Pearl Harbor again?

Better stock up on peanut butter.

They were warned about their sinful ways and now they have been smoted.

Pray, you farkers. Pray.

Wow, so even though every creek around here has dried up, the lawns are all burnt, crops are starting to wilt, the North East ISN'T in a drought yet?

We are farking boned

B-b-but climate change isn't happening!

Well I can tell you they have the New Orleans/Southwestern Louisiana part totally wrong. Its been doing nothing but raining here for about a month. Every. Single. Day.

I no longer have a lawn, I have a friggin' marsh.

I'm not doubting the rest of the map... I'm sure most of it is accurate. But we are- by far- not in a drought down here.

When do we attack Canada?

And they called me crazy for saving my grandma's nylon collection.

So the only obvious thing to do is: Ban abortions. Mississippi did, and were spared the drought.. God's telling us all what he wants people.

Looks like a good year to be a northern farmer.

You red states need to pray harder.

downstairs: Well I can tell you they have the New Orleans/Southwestern Louisiana part totally wrong. Its been doing nothing but raining here for about a month. Every. Single. Day.

I no longer have a lawn, I have a friggin' marsh.

I'm not doubting the rest of the map... I'm sure most of it is accurate. But we are- by far- not in a drought down here.

I'm originally from sw La. and all the family and friends I talked to the past few days say the same thing.

This is the nail in the coffin for the USA. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Hey look, it's the DESERT southwest and the overpopulated southern cock states.

/Biggest hyperbole EVER.
//Hilarious how a state surrounded by water is in a drought; stupid people must live there.
///Another Mail link. How expected.

According to the map things are both hunky & dory in my little corner of the world. We are however 5" below the normal amount of rainfall for the year. My poor lawn looks like the way the hills of California do 9 months out of the year. I guess I'm saving money by not buying gas to mow it & then there is the lessened pollution level due to the lack of mower exhaust so there is that..... all in all though I'd rather have the rain.

/especially as we're on a cistern & all of our water comes off of our roof. Still haven't had to buy/haul water yet but another couple of weeks without a good rainfall & I may have to.

The real situation looks more like this, derpity derp.

This is the Daily Mail, which lies like a stripper.

I'm in Austin TX, also near the middle of that map, and it did not only rain every day for the past week but it rained really hard and long (heh) for some of those days.

Of course, that map is made and designed to allow the government to "provide" financial help or farmers during this troubling time, so says the stupid article.

In other words, someone will profit from loaning money to farmers. The bankers have their tendrils all the way into the USDA and FSA now. Follow the money, people.

If anyone wonders why were absolutely farked, things like this is another reason.
Tome to go rape some bankers now.

Based on the included map, that article was nothing but geographical FAIL from start to finish.

Maybe the dailyfail needs to hire HotIgneous Intruder as their copy editor

Buy dry pasta. Buy sauce in a jar. Buy canned corn and fruit. Stock a cabinet with it all. You're going to need it.

Wheat, corn and fruit will be very expensive. If not outright rationed.

But then again, it might rain.

Isn't as bad this year in my part of BFE Texas as it was last year. Seems like we had tornadoes every other day in spring and then it quit raining and stayed over 100 till October. In the worst part of fire season, I could step outside and spin in a circle and see 7 plumes of smoke from the fires at one point and my pasture was looking pretty dust bowl with no live vegetation at all. This year it's almost waist high and all the local farmers are having bumper crops. I hope the rains and mild conditions persist, lots of local farmers and ranchers barely made it through the summer of hell and could use a decent harvest this time.

I seriously feel for anyone anywhere that is dealing with the same conditions I had last year. Just glad that the long range weather predictions that said this year was gonna be just like the last were wrong.

downstairs: Well I can tell you they have the New Orleans/Southwestern Louisiana part totally wrong. Its been doing nothing but raining here for about a month. Every. Single. Day.

I no longer have a lawn, I have a friggin' marsh.

I'm not doubting the rest of the map... I'm sure most of it is accurate. But we are- by far- not in a drought down here.

Isn't the map in TFA a map of all drought declarations in 2012? It might not reflect the current situation, but at some point those counties were declared a drought disaster.

Krymson Tyde: When do we attack Canada?

"When ever we feel like getting our ass handed back to us, again, like the last time we tried that stunt... "

That would be your sign.

sgnilward: Maybe the dailyfail needs to hire HotIgneous Intruder as their copy editor

I would gladly do that if I were allowed to use a bludgeon on the content producers.

/I will not call them "writers."
//Typos, how work them.

I'm pretty sure there is no drought here in the Houston area. If there was, the rains the last week drowned it like a kitten in a bag full of bricks thrown into the bayou. And the bayous around here have grown SERIOUSLY the last few days ;)

It's like the map is opposite world. Live in Indiana and the only red sections are the places where it has rained in... all of 2012 as far as I can tell. Plus Florida is shown as drought ridden, where i'm visiting now... not so dry here.

Charlie Freak: Isn't the map in TFA a map of all drought declarations in 2012? It might not reflect the current situation, but at some point those counties were declared a drought disaster.

It is. It's used for to authorize the bankers to steal the future from farmers in distress using cheap loans. Because the best way to solve a problem is to let a banker loan you the money to get out of it.

My lawn is nearly dead and I haven't had to mow in a month and a half.

GOOD.

I've waited nearly 10 years for this. *goes in to take a nap*

What's the benefit of declaring it a disaster area? Oh, that's right, so the farmers in the red states can accept government aid for their crops. The same people who complain about big government and want no part of the federal system until something bad happens.

Simple solution. You need bigger states, then it is less states and a smaller disaster.

cretinbob: Wow, so even though every creek around here has dried up, the lawns are all burnt, crops are starting to wilt, the North East ISN'T in a drought yet?

We are farking boned

This. I expected to be a pretty color on their Oh Shiat map, too. Things that should be green aren't just brown, they're crunchy.

Hey East Texas: Quit hogging all the water!! The rest of us need some, too!

/made s'mores in the toaster
//campfires not happening this summer

What? Florida is not under a drought. That map is wrong.

Maybe some people familiar with agriculture in the midwest can explain this to me:

1. Don't farmers have crop insurance?

2. I get that corn is currently in a stage of its development where it needs lots of water, but isn't corn planted multiple times per season? So can't they just start again in a few weeks (?) when the next planting season begins?

3. Don't big farms have irrigation systems?

Here in AZ, temps are down, we are getting monsoons. We've been watching the "heat wave" in other parts of the country, glad we are having a mild-ish summer.

/Not even supposed to break 100 this weekend, and it's July?
//If the feds want to dump cash on us for it being hot in the summer, by all means do so.
///Better than it go to Pakistan or some other armpit that doesn't give two shats about us.

3rotor: Krymson Tyde: When do we attack Canada?

"When ever we feel like getting our ass handed back to us, again, like the last time we tried that stunt... "

That would be your sign.

If you promise to burn the Capitol again, the I say go for it. Just make sure all members of congress are locked inside.

grokca: Simple solution. You need bigger states, then it is less states and a smaller disaster.

You should be given a full-ride scholarship to journamalism school!
That sort of logic is a natural talent that needs to be teased out and polished to an obsidian shine. That kind of thinking will get you far in any "news room" in the nation. Maybe even the US congress....

Charlie Freak: downstairs: Well I can tell you they have the New Orleans/Southwestern Louisiana part totally wrong. Its been doing nothing but raining here for about a month. Every. Single. Day.

I no longer have a lawn, I have a friggin' marsh.

I'm not doubting the rest of the map... I'm sure most of it is accurate. But we are- by far- not in a drought down here.

Isn't the map in TFA a map of all drought declarations in 2012? It might not reflect the current situation, but at some point those counties were declared a drought disaster.

I don't have the best short-term memory, but I'm pretty sure down here in NOLA this spring and summer where we were in anything near a drought.

farking Permaculture how does it work?

HotIgneous Intruder: grokca: Simple solution. You need bigger states, then it is less states and a smaller disaster.

You should be given a full-ride scholarship to journamalism school!
That sort of logic is a natural talent that needs to be teased out and polished to an obsidian shine. That kind of thinking will get you far in any "news room" in the nation. Maybe even the US congress....

Thank you, I'm so bright my mother calls me son.

bim1154: downstairs: Well I can tell you they have the New Orleans/Southwestern Louisiana part totally wrong. Its been doing nothing but raining here for about a month. Every. Single. Day.

I no longer have a lawn, I have a friggin' marsh.

I'm not doubting the rest of the map... I'm sure most of it is accurate. But we are- by far- not in a drought down here.

I'm originally from sw La. and all the family and friends I talked to the past few days say the same thing.

USDA drought estimates tend to be based on farmers complaining about the fact they're being told to ease off on the irrigation. You're likely getting less, not none. However, I tend to trust the Uni of Nebraska drought center, and they say Northern LA has moderate drought conditions. That's based on rainfall and the amount of water needed in an area to keep vegetation healthy.

I also like TFA show a lightning strike in "drought-stricken" Iowa when the map they have shows the state isn't in a drought. Iowa is getting less rainfall than the norm, if you consider the norm to be the last century. It's probably consistent with the last decade. The US is seeing an overall trend towards hotter summers and dryer conditions than was the case in previous decades.

But according to the comments on the article drought doesn't exist because it rained last week. That's that settled then. I once had some kids in Colorado do a test. We had themdig up a soil core sample going down six feet, two summer days after some rain fell. We had them weigh the soil, then we baked different sections of the soil at 230 degrees for an hour then weighed it again. The water content in the soil would have evaporated and lightened the weight of the soil. The soil was only marginally lighter in weight than before. Even though it had rained, much of the water had already evaporated, and did so before reaching down to the lower levels of soil. Just because it rains, it doesn't mean you have saturation. New Mexico is entering their monsoon season, but we're not seeing saturation. It'll take several weeks of cooler days and good sized rainstorms to build up ground water levels.

The trouble is, nobody can really talk accurately about drought because you end up getting the mouthbreathers on either side of the global warming/climate change fence shaking their tiny fists at one another and elbowing the serious scientists out of the way. I personally think both lots should be buried up to their necks in sand out in Wyoming. if the deniers get rained on they don't die of dehydration and they win, if the eco-tub thumpers die of dehydration they win. Common sense wins either way.

Well. Where is a certain green-text using FARKer to assuage all our fears that this is not a result of drastic climate change brought on by 200 years of rapid and unchecked industrial pollution, and instead a normal pattern of weather and HAARP-filled Liberal Lies?

FishyFred: B-b-but climate change isn't happening!

While I hate to be fair to the Deniers, we had a similar drought in the 50's.

gleaningtheboob: farking Permaculture how does it work?

* Care of the Earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply.
* Care of People: Provision for people to access those resources necessary for their existence.
* Setting Limits to Population and Consumption: By governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles.


Sounds like liberal socialism, infringing on property owners' rights. I paid my water bill. Quit sending it to those cities in California, they're the ones that keep using it up.

The map is incorrect. Houston (Harris county) and the surrounding counties are no longer in a drought.

"Nearly two-thirds of the Midwest have drought"

*Looks at map*

Is it just me, or do the British have no idea where "the Midwest" is? I thought the Midwest stopped at the Mississippi River, or at least that first row of states to the west of the Mississippi River (MN, IA, MO).

hawcian: What? Florida is not under a drought. That map is wrong.

Came here to say this. I mean, it was dry for a bit; right up until it rained for three freaking days straight and then every day at 3p after that.

/Tallahassee, though out of town now, so don't know what the past week has been like

gleaningtheboob: farking Permaculture how does it work?

That thar is UN- style commyounizm, pardner.

Oh right. I keep forgetting, history is only 80 years at the most.