Posted AT 1:07 PM EDT on 15/06/07
Exceptional drought spreads in U.S. South
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The choking drought that is killing crops and turning streams into dusty trails across the Southeast is expanding.
Previously limited to the northern half of Alabama, the drought classified as exceptional has grown like an ink blot to extend from eastern Mississippi across Alabama into southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia, government meteorologists said Thursday.
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