Silver lining department: The drought is so bad that no one is growing or plowing, whihch has ked to very low runoff so far.

via Free Association Design

Not unrelated, NOAA is also noticing that the size of the oxygen-lacking dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi is currently at an eighty year low.  Deprived of the typical yearly dose of accelerated sediments and excessive nutrient loads from animal feces and agricultural fertilizers, fisheries and bay life might actually benefit from the current situation.

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