#%@!?*&% heat!

Texas is in it's worst single year drought ever! Last week in Central Texas the average daytime high was 105 F !!

The "experts" state this will last for at least another month. La Nina is to blame and may cause the drought to extend into the Fall and Winter too.

And still there are oil companies down there trying to use fresh water like it's going out of style to extract oil from rocks with some new fangled process that requires 6 barrels of fresh water per 1 barrel of oil.

People need to wake up and realize we need fresh water more than we need oil.

It's the oil companies all over the gas and oil producing areas of the US. They use the water in a process called fracking, fracing or hydrofracking to fracture the subterranean rock layer to release more gas and oil.

Yeah, all those damn fracking oil companies!

Where I live, it has been raining all spring and summer. Ironic, we get the 2nd wettest season on record while you get the driest....

......ALIENS

Dunno, was maybe a week ago the evening news said that Dallas was still coming in at 101 at 10pm... that got my attention pretty quick.

Astonishingly this isn't the worst drought Texas has ever been in, but it was over 100 years since the last one. Only within the last few days did this officially become the 2nd-worst drought.

Funny how that works... I know a few UK friends that would just love to trade weather for a few months. They get rain like it was sunshine...

The Austin-American Statesman had an article that the worst drought on record was the one of the early to mid-50's in Texas. At least along the Colorado River basin and it's tributaries. (I know... the Texas "Colorado River", not the REAL one with it's headwaters near Lake Granby, Colorado.)

This year in Central Texas is the worst single year drought on record as from October 2010 to present.

All summer we've been getting temperatures at leat 10 degrees cooler than the norm and the first 2 weeks of August might as well be September with cool, cool weather and rain, rain, rain. Please trade with us.pllllllease!

August in Paris is always pleasant. 23C here

Summer is so hot
I cant even stay in the sun's heat for 10 seconds without my skin burning up