drought

Conditions are ripe for more wildfires to get started in the panhandle region this spring and summer.

It's amazing what a span of four months can make as this picture taken outside Silverton, Texas shows.

The water is being sent by a 12 mile pipeline to the Cypress Water Treatment Plant for additional processing.

As I was driving down our country road today I could hear machinery running. I knew what it was; swathers and balers. They weren't cutting grass for hay (which we should be doing about this time of year). They were cutting the wheat and bailing it. There is nothing to harvest.

The Today show was live in Wichita Falls this morning examining the city's waste water reuse project, or as they so eloquently called it: "turning to toilets for tap water."

The solution to our water issue may be as simple as a tank.

For those of us who must annoyingly insist on a silver lining to every issue, there have been two that I have found recently relating to our drought situation.

Phoenix, Arizona looked like a scene from an apocalyptic summer blockbuster Tuesday night after a massive dust storm engulfed the city and its surrounding areas. The dust cloud appeared to be 100 miles wide and was moving between 50 and 60 miles an hour.

In the last 4 months, Oklahoma has experienced its driest period since the dust bowl era of the 1930's.