Friday, September 14, 2007

new words / drought

Emily's new words since the last post: daddy, nigh-nigh (night-night), uh (up), boo (book), beah (bear), beeh (bread).

And since the rain at the end of August, we've had negligible rain until today, when the remnants of hurricane Humberto blew through, and we got perhaps an hour of rain total. The western parts of the state got rain non-stop for several hours, which was great, since they've got the worst drought conditions of all the state. And we pray for more... they say we need 12-18 inches to ease the drought at the moment. We've been in category 4 drought (out of 5) for some weeks now, and the southwestern bit of the state in category 5. In many counties, farmers have apparently lost 30% of their crops for the year, or more.

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