- You can use your lawn as sandpaper or a bristle brush.
- Shade is for rent by the hour.
- Wrigley’s stops selling Rain chewing gum in your town.
- Arid Extra Dry sells out in all the stores.
- Vultures start circling you when you are outside.
- Camels decide to migrate to your town.
- Climate change deniers evaporate (their ideas are all wet).
- Bookings for rain forest vacations jump exponentially.
- You could bake a cake on the driveway.
- Businesses finally learn to stop watering their asphalt and concrete with sprinklers.
- The scorpions come to town (the insects not the band).
- Bald becomes beautiful again.
- You wish it was January.
- Everyone has the dry heaves.
- No one wants to grill out anymore.
- You feel like you are being sandblasted on windy days.
- Fish sue!
- Lightning bugs are required to douse their lights to prevent wildfires.
- Car washes clean by only spit and polish.
- There is absolutely no need for crop dusters.
- Even Endust is overwhelmed.
- Spit and urine are hoarded.
- It stops being humorous – which for many it unfortunately has (see photo below).
There’s no doubt it’s a serious drought when…
July 16, 2012 by Rick Brown


I hate when it’s too hot to grill outside! Or when the pool is 92 degrees! Yuck!
I agree – just standing makes me sweaty.