The drought

Our area is one of many areas that are in a drought.  After how much rain we received last year it almost doesn't seem possible, but that was last year and this is this year, and we've had very little rain.  In fact, until Sunday we'd had one day of rain in the last month.  And to make matters worse, both Sunday's rain and the previous rain the last month were downpours.  The problem with that of course is that the ground is so dry that it can't really absorb rain during a downpour, and most of it just runs off.  And then our weather is so unbelievably hot following the rain that most of it evaporates.  Our crops are in DIRE shape, and based on what we saw in Indiana this is true of most of the mid-west.  I remember 1988 when we last had a summer like this.  We could use some rain, but there just doesn't seem to be anything developing.  We are fortunate though that the water tables for communities are still in rather good shape, and hopefully it will rain sooner rather than later!