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AngryAmish

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10. The one part of the state I'm familiar with escaped decline I see

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2014, 10:33 AM

Feb 2014

2012 was a brutal drought. 2013 was better and a lot of the Colorado flood water from last fall got impounded I think.

But Hooker County is cattle country and does not drink as much as cropland. Golf Courses looked the same.

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