Mon April 2, 2012 The Historic Texas Drought, Visualized A
devastating drought consumed nearly all of Texas in 2011,
killing livestock, destroying agriculture and sparking fires
that burned thousands of homes. It was the worst single-year
drought in the state's recorded history. As part of NPR's state-
based public policy reporting network, StateImpact, we created
an interactive news application to show how state policy (and in
this case, climate forces) have affected people's lives. The
interactive is broken up into four buckets: the history and the
drought's progression, the impact and devastation, the policy
choices and their limitations, and the Texans, who we hope will
tell us their stories. To tell us your Texas drought story,
comment on the app or leave us a voice mail at (512) 537-SITX
(7489). Elise Hu is the digital editor of NPR's StateImpact
network, a collaboration among NPR and member stations examining
how state issues affect people's lives. Read more about it.
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