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Holy smokes! The most important drought story of the year and somehow I missed it!

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 30, 2007 at 5:42 pm

I heard it from JFleck Inakstain, who heard it from Waterblogged, and I have to agree, it is, like, the most important drought story missed by Aquafornia! This, from ABC News:

Sheriff Garrett Roberts hasn’t needed a machete to cut any of the scrawny marijuana plants he has confiscated this year. A severe drought that has parched corn and soybean fields across the Southeast has also scorched marijuana crops, leaving plants that should be 10 feet tall so puny that Roberts and his deputies simply pull them up.

“The plants we’ve seen have been anywhere from 2 inches to 5 1/2 feet tall,” said Roberts, the chief law enforcer in eastern Kentucky’s Lawrence County. Kentucky, one of the nation’s top producers of marijuana, has seen a sharp decrease in production of the illegal crop this year. The weather there and in neighboring states is cutting into the supply, and street prices for the drug could rise, authorities say.

For the rest of this news story from ABC News, click here.

And, well, while I’m at it, what’s cool about a drought? Waterblogged asked the same question:

… We were puzzled when we saw it, not only because we don’t recall using the word cool in any of our entries, but also because dude, what could possibly be cool about a drought? After an emergency meeting about the matter, the Waterblogged.info editorial team determined that either this visitor is an idiot, or worse, knows something about long periods without normal precipitation leading to severe water shortage that we don’t. After putting our crack team of researchers to work we’re embarrassed to report that the latter is true. The web abounds with cool facts about Georgia’s drought and, with deep apologies for not having done so earlier, proudly present the ten coolest.

Click here to read the rest of Waterblogged’s post about what is cool about the Georgia drought.

November 30, 2007 · Filed Under Weird & Wacky Water News

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