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1000 Years of Droughts in America By Andrew Lisa, Stacker News On 3/6/21 at 8:00 AM EST Defined by the National Weather Service as a shortage of water over an extended period of time, droughts are a normal and natural part of Earth s weather cycle. Sometimes, however, a lack of water is far more significant than just a cyclical dry spell. Although tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and fires are more dramatic and alarming, severe droughts are often far more widespread, more devastating, more expensive, and harder to manage than the violent natural disasters that tend to grab headlines. Making matters worse, droughts can create or encourage a range of secondary environmental catastrophes like fires, crop failures, mudslides, sinkholes, destroyed roadways, massive fish kills, locust swarms, and although it seems counterintuitive severe floods.

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