By the late 2000s, water was only a few centimetres deep during drought and ice could have penetrated into the anoxic sediment.
Oklahomans don't blink when they hear warnings about tornadoes, drought or ice-storms.
Resilience of critical transport infrastructure to extreme weather events, such as heavy rainfall, drought or icing, is one of the most demanding challenges for both government and society.
But since then it has started to send invoices back to society in the form of heatwaves, droughts, accelerated ice melt and sea level rise, and collapsing lakes and fish stocks.
The evidence accumulates -- droughts, melting ice caps, cod dying off New England, rising sea levels menacing the Florida coast.
Any problems with heating, any freezing droughts or ice-cold walls, any rooms that need an electric heater — all of that will be obvious.
Every day, rain, shine, ice, drought, he would build character by being responsible for something other than himself.
Extreme killer superstorms, historic drought, vanishing sea ice, an increase in ocean acidity by 30%, the hottest decade on record and mega forest fires have increasingly become our new reality.
Even after a year of record-smashing temperatures, drought and Arctic ice melt, none of the moderators of the four general-election debates asked about climate change, nor did either of the candidates broach the topic.
But in the end, the Rangers lost to the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-3, with Valery Kamensky's eighth goal of the season, at 4 minutes 43 seconds of the final period, accomplishing little more than putting an end to the Rangers' scoring drought on Garden ice.
