About one year ago, I featured an article titled: Catastrophic Drought, by Stephen and Amanda Jimenez.  Well this is the time to reread it, since they clearly were ahead of their time in addressing the topic that has become very real this summer.  I guess you could say this slow onset disaster agent is seeing a slow onset of attention by the emergency management community.

Related is the article on Crop Insurance in Washpost on 8.13