common dreams has a drought map up.  As I posted before, the Ag secretary was saying that there was a bumper planting of corn this year, so the corn crop isn’t going to be that affected…which means there is speculation and falsely jacking up food prices.

They reported this morning that a meteorologist from Purdue was saying that a drought this bad is a “once-in-a-lifetime” happening and that folks who are living now will “never” see something like this again….um, yeah…

…and there’s this thing called the 1988 drought that I remember quite well because I was pregnant and worried about the food shortages they were predicting.  I’ve also been watching the rivers ever since then, and my memory may be faulty, but I don’t recall them reaching their former levels with the exception of a couple of years.  This has concerned me ever since.

This is the only article I could find that notes the extended drought –it puts it between 1988 and 1992.