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03-11-2005, 10:17 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050311/od_nm/environment_seattle_drou
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Home State of Rainy Seattle Declares Drought
SEATTLE (Reuters) - With snowpacks at a quarter of normal levels and sunny, warm
days well ahead of the summer months, the home state of the "rainy city" of Seattle
declared a drought emergency on Thursday. Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire
authorized the statewide drought emergency, the first since 2001, after unusually
low winter snowfalls in the Cascades left rivers on both sides of the mountain
range flowing at record-low levels.
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Home State of Rainy Seattle Declares Drought
SEATTLE (Reuters) - With snowpacks at a quarter of normal levels and sunny, warm
days well ahead of the summer months, the home state of the "rainy city" of Seattle
declared a drought emergency on Thursday. Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire
authorized the statewide drought emergency, the first since 2001, after unusually
low winter snowfalls in the Cascades left rivers on both sides of the mountain
range flowing at record-low levels.