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History of droughts in the U.S. Defined by the National Weather Service as "a shortage of water over an extended period of time," droughts are a normal and... 3 hours ago
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Nikki Elsen confirmed as first appointed La Crosse city clerk by F&P Committee Elsen has been serving as interim clerk since January, after longtime clerk Teri Lehrke's retirement as the city conducted... 6 hours ago
Ethics board finds no violation from O'Malley social media post "The role of the La Crosse County Ethics Board is not to comment on whether a county employee committed an error of... 7 hours ago
1931–41: Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl is the most famous environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, and although irresponsible farming practices... 7 hours ago
1928–34: Seven-year California drought The year 1928 was the beginning of one of several distinct and significant 20th-century California droughts. According to... 7 hours ago
1890–96: 1890s drought The 1890s drought, which affected the Plains and much of the West, actually started in the late 1880s on the heels of a... 7 hours ago
1874: Year of the Locusts In 1874, a relatively modest drought led to a catastrophe of truly biblical proportions across much of the American Plains... 7 hours ago
1864: Central Valley drought In one of the most dramatic environmental flip-flops in American history, California's Central Valley was flooded so... 7 hours ago
1850s–1860s: Civil War drought By the middle of the 19th century, huge numbers of people, horses, and farm animals had already flooded into the Great... 7 hours ago
1841: Sonoma drought Before the 1849 Gold Rush brought masses of pioneers pouring into California, early settlers grappled with extreme... 7 hours ago
14th century–19th century: Mississippi River Valley drought Massive earthen mounds still stand where the city-states of the Mississippian American Indian culture once thrived in the... 7 hours ago
10th century–14th century: Megadrought According to a report from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the year... 7 hours ago