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Honest, I really don't mean to pile on, but you might want to read this:
From http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080818_12_BEAV363263&%3bamp%3ballcom=1&%3bamp%3bsortcom=r:
Floods move through drought-stricken Panhandle
By The Associated Press
8/18/2008 10:12 PM
BEAVER -- Several days of rain inundated county roads in the eastern part of the Oklahoma Panhandle, an area not known for flooding, authorities said Monday.
Four to 6 inches of rain has fallen in Beaver County since Thursday, swamping low-lying areas, county road and dry stream beds with up to a half-foot or more of water, Beaver County Emergency Management Director Keith Shadden said.
There have been no reports of structural damage or injuries and no homes have been evacuated, but Shadden estimated rain was falling at a rate of a half-inch an hour. "What we're looking at right now is we're trying to put barricades and emergency lights and warnings out to advise people about low-lying areas," he said.
"The water hasn't gotten close to people's residences, it seems to be following natural waterways. We haven't had any calls from residents asking for help to remove them from their homes."
The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning for Beaver County, as well as for Comanche, Cotton and Tillman counties in southwestern Oklahoma.
A meandering low pressure system moving south into the region is the culprit behind the unseasonably cool, wet weather (emphasis added), according to the weather service. The system may not track east out of the area until late in the week.
The rain has had a beneficial effect — it's helping ease a prolonged dry spell in the Panhandle that has been compared with the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.
Beaver and eight other counties in western Oklahoma are part of an agriculture disaster declaration issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in July.
Shadden said even with more average rainfall, he doesn't remember flooding like he's seen in the past few days.
"This part of the country is not noted for having too much water," he said.
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posted by
WriterofLight
on August 21, 2008 at 9:45 PM
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Oh, and by the way . . .
For approximately the 15th time, there is no necessary connection between drought and heat. If you read the article you linked, you will see that the drought conditions existed during winter as well as summer.
Also, that part of the country is, according to the article, subject to periodic drought anyway. In other words, it's naturally arid. And a look at the map in the article shows that sizeable portions of the country are not in any kind of drought at all.
In other words - they're experiencing drought because it's natural there, and your attempt to use it for your "global warming" crusade is discredited.
(For about the 3,155th time - "global warming" in quotation marks refers to the theory that human greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of warming trends - just like they were the cause of the coming ice age back in the day of the "global cooling" fad.)
posted by
WriterofLight
on August 21, 2008 at 9:41 PM
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For approximately the 2,468th time . . .
- Temperatures are warmer over the long term (although not the short term; see http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080820/twl-environment-climate-2008-dc-1202b49.html).
- They are warmer due to natural cycles, not manmade phenomena. Go read my blog at http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Accounts/BlogSource.aspx?blog=WriterofLight9282 for extensive discussion why this is so.
posted by
WriterofLight
on August 21, 2008 at 9:27 PM
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