OUR RESPONSE:
Hello Rexann
(if that is in fact your name since all your email bounces),
Since you
are such an expert on this matter, we will be publishing the article from
the Amarillo Globe News and from a Lubbock newspaper, and from a Texas
State Agriculture magazine that say it did happen, along with their photos
of Randall County farmers sifting their former top soil through their fingers
complaining that it had turned to powder; along with photos of Randall
County, Texas cattle ranchers in their fifty foot cattle trucks as far
away as Northern Canada trying to find ranchers in that area to whom they
could literally GIVE their cattle free of charge.
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Rexann,
what do you suppose Texas State Agronomist Brent Bean and Randall County
farmer Dean Ray are doing ?
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And
while you're at it Rexann, please read the paragraph in the article
we are providing by the Amarillo Globe News at the bottom of this page,
which, with reference to July, 1996, very clearly states:
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Farmers
who last year stood in those fields and let the parched dirt run through
their fingers, this year will likely find a reason to smile.
.
And
what was it they said about top soil Rexann ? Let me quote them !
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"No
worries this year about top soil blowing away". |
And, since
the matter made national news headlines for several weeks, complete with
THEIR photos of the entire situation, we will ask our readers to
jog their memories and to send us their recollection of exactly
what happened according to the national news reports THEY themselves saw.
Which will i'm sure include that clumps of Randall County's top soil were
being found on the outer walls of the Empire State Building in New York,
as well as on the decks of various cruise ships in the Atlantic Ocean.
I mean, all these things were in the national news, how or why you think
you can deny them is beyond me.
We will as
well publish your declaration that claims none of it happened, and give
you an opportunity to prove your case to our readers.
Fair enough
?
Vince Diehl
What
a difference a year makes
Do you recall
the endless days of drought in 1996? Do you recall back-fence
recollections about the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and whether we ever could
experience such a disaster again in this part of the world?
That was then.
Today we are
seeing a much different scenario play out.
The High Plains is getting
rain. Lots of it, in fact. The rain gauge at Amarillo International
Airport, where the National Weather Service measures the "official'' precipitation
amounts, stands at 4 inches more than normal. It is 7 inches
more than last year at this time.
No worries
this year about top soil blowing away.
This year
our pastures are lush. Wheat and hay harvests look promising. Same for
the corn and grain sorghum. So does the cotton outlook throughout the High
Plains and the South Plains.
Farmers
who last year stood in those fields and let the parched dirt run through
their fingers this year likely will find a reason to smile.
It never hurts
to remind ourselves of the need to keep the faith and to understand how
nature - the one force that humankind cannot control - often has a way
of making things right.
