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National Weather Service hydrologist Royce Fontenot poses for a photograph after discussing soil moisture levels, high temperatures and a lack of rain as reasons for flash drought during an interview in his office in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. A quick uptick in temperatures and no precipitation combined for a flash drought over part of New Mexico in March. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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In this Jan. 3, 2017 photo, Captain Kristi Taylor pilots the oil tanker Pamisos through the Houston Ship Channel in Galveston Bay in Houston. Taylor has met and passed thousands of ships without incident. But she knows just one wrong move could cost millions or even billions of dollars in damages, spill oil into the channel or risk the lives of those onboard. (James Nielsen /Houston Chronicle via AP)
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In this Jan. 3, 2017 photo, Captain Kristi Taylor pilots the oil tanker Pamisos through the Houston Ship Channel in Galveston Bay in Houston. Taylor has met and passed thousands of ships without incident. But she knows just one wrong move could cost millions or even billions of dollars in damages, spill oil into the channel or risk the lives of those onboard. (James Nielsen /Houston Chronicle via AP)
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In this Jan. 3, 2017 photo, Captain Kristi Taylor pilots the oil tanker Pamisos through the Houston Ship Channel in Galveston Bay in Houston. Taylor has met and passed thousands of ships without incident. But she knows just one wrong move could cost millions or even billions of dollars in damages, spill oil into the channel or risk the lives of those onboard. (James Nielsen /Houston Chronicle via AP)
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In this Jan. 3, 2017 photo, Captain Kristi Taylor pilots the oil tanker Pamisos through the Houston Ship Channel in Galveston Bay in Houston. Taylor has met and passed thousands of ships without incident. But she knows just one wrong move could cost millions or even billions of dollars in damages, spill oil into the channel or risk the lives of those onboard. (James Nielsen /Houston Chronicle via AP)
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This March 2017 photo from video provided by KSPR in Springfield, Mo., shows storm chaser Kelley Williamson, of Cassville, Mo. Williamson was one of three storm chasers killed in a vehicle crash near Spur, Texas, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Williamson and Randy Yarnall, from Cassville, Mo., both contractors with the Weather Channel, and Corbin Lee Jaeger of Peoria, Ariz., died in the accident. (KSPR via AP)
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FILE - In this May 19, 2010 file photo taken near Kingfisher, Okla., storm chasers and spectator vehicles clog the road and shoulder of Highway 81. The subculture of chasing has gone mainstream in recent years, thanks to digital cameras and mobile radar. And it's getting more dangerous. Highways are increasingly clogged with chasers trying to beat each other in a risky race to capture the storms. Three storm chasers died Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in a collision as they raced toward a tornado-warned storm in West Texas, authorities said. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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A sign lays in the yard of a damaged home following a storm in the early hours of the morning in Rockwall, Texas on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. A powerful storm system with winds exceeding 60 mph has damaged homes in suburban Dallas, knocked out power to tens of thousands across Texas and brought heavy rain that inundated some areas. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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A house is damaged following a storm early in the morning in Rockwall, Texas on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. A powerful storm system with winds exceeding 60 mph has damaged homes in suburban Dallas, knocked out power to tens of thousands across Texas and brought heavy rain that inundated some areas. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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Houses are damaged following a storm early in the morning in Rockwall, Texas on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. A powerful storm system with winds exceeding 60 mph has damaged homes in suburban Dallas, knocked out power to tens of thousands across Texas and brought heavy rain that inundated some areas. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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John Hampton stands outside his brother's house that was damaged following a storm early in the morning in Rockwall, Texas on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. A powerful storm system with winds exceeding 60 mph has damaged homes in suburban Dallas, knocked out power to tens of thousands across Texas and brought heavy rain that inundated some areas. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017 photo, a dead turkey remains lodged in the windshield of an SUV after it collided with the vehicle near Rolling Prairie, Ind. (Capt. Michael Kellems/LaPorte County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017 photo, a dead turkey remains lodged in the windshield of an SUV after it collided with the vehicle near Rolling Prairie, Ind. (Capt. Michael Kellems/LaPorte County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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A line of severe storms moved through the eastern South Plains and Rolling Plains Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Several storm chasers were killed when their vehicles collided at a rural crossroads during severe West Texas storms on Tuesday. Tornadoes had been reported nearby at the time of the crash and heavy rain had been reported in the area, according to the National Weather Service. (Ellysa Gonzalez/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)
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Texas Department of Public Safety troopers investigate a two-vehicle crash that left several storm chasers dead Tuesday , March 28, 2017, near Spur, Texas. Tornadoes had been reported nearby at the time of the crash and heavy rain had been reported in the area, according to the National Weather Service. (Ellysa Gonzalez/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)
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Texas Department of Public Safety troopers investigate a two-vehicle crash that left several storm chasers dead Tuesday, March 28, 2017, near Spur, Texas. The storms spawned multiple funnel clouds and an occasional tornado in open areas of West Texas on Tuesday afternoon. The crash happened at a remote intersection near the town of Spur, about 55 miles southeast of Lubbock. (Ellysa Gonzalez/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)
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Texas Department of Public Safety troopers investigate a two-vehicle crash that left several storm chasers dead Tuesday, March 28, 2017, near Spur, Texas. The storms spawned multiple funnel clouds and an occasional tornado in open areas of West Texas on Tuesday afternoon. The crash happened at a remote intersection near the town of Spur, about 55 miles southeast of Lubbock. (Ellysa Gonzalez/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)
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Los Angeles firemen and SWAT team members assist a woman after she climbed a 150-foot-tall construction crane and locked herself in the operator's cabin in downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Tuesday afternoon’s confrontation ended peacefully more than two hours later when SWAT team members climbed the crane near downtown’s famous Olvera Street. Workers had shut off power to the crane so that she couldn’t move it. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Los Angeles firemen and SWAT team members assist a woman after she climbed a 150-foot-tall construction crane and locked herself in the operator's cabin in downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. They put a harness on the woman and attached her to a safety rope, then allowed her to climb down the crane ladders to the ground. Workers had shut off power to the crane so that she couldn’t move it. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Los Angeles firemen and SWAT team members help a woman, top, come down safely after she climbed a 150-foot-tall construction crane and locked herself in the operator's cabin in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, March 28, 2017. They put a harness on the woman and attached her to a safety rope, then allowed her to climb down the crane ladders to the ground. Workers had shut off power to the crane so that she couldn’t move it. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
