From Drought to Flood to Drought in 60 Days on the Texas Plains
- South Goes from wet to dry in the course of a few months
- El Nino is both hero and villain in the southern drought
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Across eastern Texas, parts of Louisiana and Mississippi the land went from moist to parched in a matter of weeks.
Drought, which had been eradicated in Texas last spring, returned and spread across the South, reaching as far as the East Coast, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.