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Drought Broken! 2006 Style

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Everything is Relative July, 2006 In a four year drought, and rains came. August, 2018 and the rains have come again. Just not so much. I was ecstatic. This is what I wrote in 2006... with a few follow up comments from 2018. White text = 2006 Yellow text = 2018 The Great New Mexico Drought [What did I know about "great" re droughts?] is cracked.   Not broken, mind you, just cracked. [So I guess this year the current drought is just bent.] Here in this marvelous little microclimate called “The East Mountains”  - the east side of the mountains  east  of Albuquerque; actually the Sandias, Manzanitas and Manzanos - and especially in this valley where I live, in the Manzanitas close to the north boundary of the Isleta Reservation, we have caught a break.  The rains have come and come and come [2018: They come just once at a time mostly this year, short, intense thundershowers. Not much of that closely packed storms stuff.]     ]  In the last three weeks