Drought Quotations

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.

I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.

California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

Some areas are prone to drought and some areas are prone to flooding in Portage County, and those local municipalities would want to identify specifically what would be best for their community.

Neither drought nor sanctions are at the root of Zimbabwe's decline.

Next week looks kind of low, ... We're headed into the late summer, pre-Labor Day drought for deals.

We need to monitor this drought situation very closely.

Let us respond with the same commitment and resolve in this drought as we would with any other natural disaster.

So far this year in our area we are down at least nine inches. And the drought started in April, when hay production was just beginning. The ground moisture was drying out by May. This has made for a significantly decreased hay crop.

She's just giving us a real good drenching. It's really going to alleviate drought conditions in central and western parts of the state.

We are going to see an increase in our fire activity as we continue to see very little rain. Our drought index continues to increase and with low relative humidity and the daily shifting of winds any fire that does start will be a problem.

I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing.

Further, the lack of clean water during a drought interferes with good hygiene and safe rehydration of those who have lost large amounts of water because of diarrhea or fever.

For most water users across southern Colorado, this year's runoff outlook mirrors that of 2002, one of the worst drought years the state has faced in decades.

We can confidently say the rains have established. In many arid and semi-arid regions, the drought is already alleviating, the dams are filling up and there is water for livestock.

Having year after year of drought really puts a lot of pressure on the whole system. This year it looks like we're over that.

We're in the middle of a drought - even if it rains from now until the summer, we will still have problems. Everything that both the water companies and that customers can do will make a difference.

hundreds of thousands more people are likely to become displaced as the conflict spreads and the drought worsens in the next two or three months.

If we now act quickly, it will still be possible to save many lives. If the drought victims receive assistance in time, many of them will be able to help themselves.

I'm a student of conservation history and what I see are cycles, ... The trend over time has been a broader level of conservation and concern. But there are peaks and valleys. We had tremendous environmental activism under Theodore Roosevelt, then went through a drought in the '20s. We had another resurgence in conservation interest in the '30s, hit a lull in the '50s, then had a highly active period in the '60s and '70s. We're in one of those down periods again, but I'm as certain as I can be that we're getting to the end of this period and headed toward a new era of conservation and concern.

We've been through a snow drought up until March.

Joplin has been the bull's eye for the drought in Missouri, where 11 of the past 12 months have received below normal rainfall. The precipitation deficit is now approaching 20 inches, or less than 60 percent of normal.

March did make a dent in the long-term drought over the wintertime. It was like the cavalry coming over the hill. The rain we got should help set up local farmers for the spring season.

Steinbeck has drought and dust in the wrong parts of Oklahoma, ... And some Oklahomans and Texans didn't like the rather primitive image he created of the Joads. They felt, with some justification, it propounded an Okie stereotype.

Successive seasons of drought in the worst-affected areas have now eroded many households' assets to the point of destitution. A range of appropriate emergency interventions need to be put in place as quickly as possible before the already alarming conditions become much worse.

Peak hunting periods coincide with dry season drought months, as vegetation is less dense and wildlife searching for watering holes are easier to hunt and locate. Hence supply peaks during times of hardship and constitutes an important drought and famine coping strategy for the majority in the rural areas surveyed.

Just about everybody I talked to was pleasantly surprised with the production they got this year. As bad as the drought was, things could have been a lot worse.

It is clear that North Dakota, and the Red River Valley, desperately need a supplemental source of water before the next drought strikes. The question becomes, how can the residents of the valley promise future generations a better way of life, without a plan in place to address the critical water issues?

It is later. It's not canceled. Although we got that moisture in spring, you can't undo the drought in one year.

Out here I have seen some detriment to yields from planting too thick. Two years ago we had a drought and thicker corn hurt us.

We'll get a little reprieve from it with systems coming through every three or four weeks, but that's not going to cut it. We had a drought in the summer and it continued into the fall - Hurricane Rita did nothing to stop that - and we're in the winter now and still in a drought.

We didn't shoot the ball very well in the first half. It was a team drought while they (Fairhaven) were hitting consistently from the outside.

To grow a lawn that greens up naturally each spring and that resists drought and disease, you need to foster a strong root system.

With the talent we have here, that's a real, real good possibility that we're going to end that drought in '97 when the Red Wings won their last championship. I'm the man to do it and I think I can back it up.

I was born and raised here, so I'm a little biased, but with each passing year, I have become more and more thankful that I live in Nevada. You don't see hurricanes or anything like that, other than an occasional record snowfall or a drought, and we're always in a state of drought here. The people of Nevada have kind of an individual spirit about them, and I fit into that, you have a lot of wide open spaces, and there's a lot of good fishing.

I was proud of the way we battled tonight. But what cost us the game is the same thing that's killed us all season. We had another long scoring drought at a bad time.

You just couldn't believe that in an area in drought we lost our two biggest meetings in one year.

We need to recognize that while the most obvious part of the drought has been established over the last six to eight weeks, this dryness is a pattern that began in 2005.

We need external assistance. It is not a dry season or a drought period, it's a drought.

With all the drought and no snow up there, it is real bad.

We don't expect this current drought situation to be over until about June when we experience the normal summer rain showers.

That was a real disaster. None of the streets were paved back then and many people lived in tents, so you can imagine everything was a real mess. If we'd had a drought that year, we'd still be the state capital.

The world is a drought when out of love.

There is a real threat that many people could die as a consequence of the drought if we do not have necessary help in place in time.

We're asking for voluntarily conservation of water and to not plant any new landscaping until the drought passes.

We're actually more in a deficit than we were at the height of the drought when the lake was at its lowest level back on Nov. 20.

We played well on defense, but we struggled offensively. The scoring drought that we had hurt. We're spent a lot of time on offense, so it's puzzling. It's definitely a source of frustration.

The real problem is the underlying drought conditions.

The real problem will be if the drought doesn't break over the winter,

We're trying to re-establish ourselves. We had a pretty good start, we've gone into a little bit of a drought and we're trying to get it back.

We were in a drought for 30 years. Now, the problem has come to light through actual experience. You don't know until you know.

We were definitely in drought conditions. It's nice to get little shots of precipitation instead of one big gulp, which we really don't need. This will really help the farmers out.

Worm or beetle -- drought or tempest -- on a farmer's land may fall,Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

We're right on the edge of going into a drought period. If there's no change, we're likely to see a drought this spring.

We're still in a long-term drought, but short-term-wise, yes, the drought conditions have been eased. You can tell everything is greening up, and the fire threat is becoming very low.

The persistence of moderate to severe drought conditions in parts of Illinois, Iowa, and much of the southern Plains increases concerns about yield potential. As usual, forecasts of summer weather conditions are not consistent at this time.

Working together we'll see what we can do from a financial assistance perspective. ... Drought is like an insidious cancer. It's slow, it infects and it's harder to deal with as a disaster,

WFP is short $44 million now to feed 1.1 million people because of the drought. Without new donations, WFP will run out of food to distribute in drought affected areas by the end of February.

WFP is short $44 million (US) now to feed 1.1 million people because of the drought. Without new donations, WFP will run out of food to distribute in drought affected areas by the end of February.

WFP is short of US$44 million now to feed 1.1 million people because of the drought. Without new donations, WFP will run out of food to distribute in drought affected areas by the end of February.

Drought and other natural disasters continue to plague many of America's farmers, ... USDA is working to provide needed assistance and emergency loans for farmers during these tough times.

Drought continues to be the major concern for many areas of the country. Areas of eastern Georgia, the western Carolinas, and the Florida peninsula are entering their fourth year of drought.

Drought likes company. If somebody else is dry in another part of the country, it's always a little bit worrisome. It just can kind of feed on itself and spread. . . . It is something to keep your eye on to see if it persists into the spring.

Drought need not be a death sentence for children living in affected communities. We can save thousands of lives if we can get the emergency health, nutrition, water and sanitation interventions to them before it is too late.

Transferring the risk of drought to international financiers makes sense for insurance companies, because it enables them to expand their portfolios.

As the counterpart of Zeus for the Greeks or Jupiter for the Romans, Indra is the god of the thunderstorm, who vanquishes drought and darkness.

The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country.

You look at it, you've got to take one game at a time and play good baseball. Yes, we started hot, but there have been a ton of teams that start hot, then they go into a drought after that. So we have to stay focused and continue doing what we're doing.

We went through that little drought and that's what got us in the hole. We had to dig our way out. The boys fought back; they fought hard to dig their way out.

Normally, on the road we don't hit shots. We get to a point in the game where we hit a drought and don't score for a while, and then we start missing free throws and the next thing you know we're hanging our heads. Tonight, we shot the ball with confidence. That was the difference.

Extreme weather events, drought and rising sea levels threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of people around the world. Negotiators must remember this as they enter these talks.

Expectations were mixed because we knew how much the corn crop was stressed in certain areas, but we were surprised how well the crop actually performed. Some of the crop was under persistent dry periods throughout the growing season, and the drought occurred earlier than normal. Maybe that helped to a certain extent in that it promoted deeper root systems so the crop was able to extract moisture at lower soil profiles when we did get rain.

The Government is determined to improve producer prices for milk to cushion farmers against the negative effects of drought and also boost their income.

So what they have out there is similar to what we had here in Florida after four hurricanes last year - a lot of fuel for wildfires and drought conditions.

A worse drought than we have seen recently may loom in our future.

Although we are still doing some assessments, it appears as though many more people are being affected by this drought than we had imagined.

Quick recovery from the drought is not likely. Even normal rainfall in May and June can't restore ground water levels.

SBA's disaster declaration was issued as a result of a similar action taken by the Secretary of Agriculture to help farmers recover from damages and losses of crops caused by drought that occurred Feb. 1, 2005, and continuing.

Other humanitarian agencies in southern Somalia face the enormous challenge of reaching drought victims in remote and insecure areas. We urge leaders and rival militia to set aside their differences and guarantee safe passage (of food aid) to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.

We have to break the cycle of drought in this region; it will affect and save the lives of literally hundreds of thousands of people over the long-term.

While good rains in August and September have alleviated drought conditions in portions of central and southern Illinois, the most severely affected area in northern Illinois remains stubbornly dry.

To say people are upset is an understatement. FSA offices are institutions in these communities, institutions that are providing vital services helping farmers and others in the related agricultural industries wade through the bureaucracy of loan payments, drought and disaster assistance and other farm programs,

This drought couldn't have come at a worse time for farmers, ... are receiving the lowest prices they've received for their commodities in 20 or 30 years, especially when you talk about corn, soybeans and wheat.

This is an unusual event in that it's lasted so long and that it's occurred at such a unique time, because people think of drought conditions in the summertime. It's just not intuitive for this time of year for there to be a severe drought condition for North Carolina.

The National Weather Service is calling for intensification in that area and broadening of the drought into the central Plains and western Corn Belt by this spring.

I like the retail group as a whole because now Wall Street has soured on these companies, ... They're worried about the consumer vitality. But don't forget we have an election coming up in November. That actually stirs confidence, interestingly enough. This could be another good Christmas season. Also this summer, we may not see a drought for most of the country, which means people's spending on home and hearth might be a little better than it was last year when it was so tough outside.

If the rain picks up in the spring, everything will be OK. If this drought continues during spring, we're going to be in real trouble.

If you don't breach the lagoon, you'll lose the run of fish. There are arguments both ways. If you breach it too early, the younger fish are going to die because they're not mature enough and will get sucked out into the ocean, but if there's a drought year, you're going to have to open it up during their spawning cycle so they can get into the river.

I've handled and managed a balanced budget in agriculture for 40 years, and that's very difficult. You don't know (what) the elements (will be), like the drought we're having right now.

Taking a snapshot of the last few years doesn't really work. There are too many variables. The weather is a tremendous factor. There's been a lot of snow in the high country this year. It certainly wouldn't be fair to industry to say the wells drove them away. And drought - it wouldn't be fair for industry to say populations are going up because of, or despite wells.

The beetles are native, so they've always been around causing a little mortality, and that's kind of a good thing. But when certain things happen, like the drought and fire, the population of the beetles builds up and it gives them the ability to move into healthy trees.

The best time to achieve solutions is before a crisis, ... The next time a drought comes, it may be too late to act.

It's pretty dry down there. It's looking like a drought situation for a big part of the southwestern part of the country.

The large influx of ducks into the state since the November survey is undoubtedly due to recent severe cold fronts bringing freezing temperatures and snow to northern and mid-latitude areas of the Central and Mississippi Flyway. Combined with persistent drought to the north, conditions were favorable for waterfowl migration into Louisiana.

The lake has risen 13 feet in four years, but if we do go into a drought again, we're right back where we started. My boss says I can't quit until the lake reaches that level.

It needs to continue and it's not just a one-time event that is going to end the drought from last year. It needs to be a number of rain events over time.

It's beyond belief. You sort of equate that with the drought with the Stanley Cup and I guess it adds up but it's almost unbelievable.

It's very dry. Parts of southwest Louisiana are in a drought already.

It took us a long time to get in a drought and it won't take one overnight event to get us out.

I hope I don't suffer another drought as long as that one,