Letter from Texas: Floods didn’t drown the drought

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By Justin CarrollAug 18, 2015, 6:06 am157 ptsTrending
This year brought what former Texas governor (and current idiot) Rick Perry had us praying for back in 2011: big, biblical buckets of rain. In May, I was passing through the last suburbs of Dallas on my way back home to Austin. Ahead of me, the sky was like a two-day-old bruise. About 10 minutes later, I was in…

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