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Tx4obama

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Tue Dec 20, 2011, 05:09 AM Dec 2011

Texas Drought Caused The Deaths Of Millions of Trees [View all]


COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- A preliminary state estimate says as many as a half-billion trees died this year across Texas from the drought persisting across much of the state.

The Texas Forest Service said in a statement Monday that its foresters estimated that 100 million to 500 million trees died in the 2011 drought.

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/texas-drought-trees_n_1159637.html


p.s. Right now 10 miles west of downtown Houston we are having a huge storm will lots of rain,
all the rain that we have been getting the past few weeks got here several months too late


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