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Larger areas of Texas fall into severe drought

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug 3, 2011 file photo, Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across the cracked lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake, in San Angelo, Texas. The impacts of record-breaking heat and years of low or no rainfall can be felt years after the dry spell passes, and Texas is now struggling with some of the worst impacts of a historic one-year drought that crippled the state’s lakes, agriculture and water supplies. More than 50 percent of Texas remains in drought despite more consistent rainfall in the past two years, climatologists said. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Impacts of historic drought linger in Texas

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI - Associated Press