You can count on it if you live in the Southwest. Every decade there’s gonna be a severe drought.
Down in Texas, drought is a change-maker. Texas opened its western lands to settlement in 1883. Farming families moved in to take advantage of new, free land. A major drought in 1884-1886 chased most of them back to the East.
Cabeza de Vaca, the old castaway, reached the area of modern Presidio down near the Rio Grande. Indians there were farmers. They thought de Vaca was a God because of his white skin. He’d played that card all across Texas. The Indians begged him to talk to the sky – ask it for rain.
I was still living in Texas during the great drought of 1950-1952, when water shortage in some cities became critical.
The anthropologist Brian Fagan recently published “The Great Warming,” about civilizations collapsing during the Medieval warming event. He concluded that it should be called the “Medieval Drought Period.”
Yes, we’re gonna have a drought. The question is, will the Democrats blame it on Trump? Will Trump blame it on immigrants?