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Where was God when Perry called to her?

http://www.earthweek.com/2012/ew120224/ew120224c.html

The blistering heat and record drought that baked Texas last year killed
approximately 5.6 million shade trees in urban settings across the state,
according to the Texas Forest Service.

That represents the death of about 10 percent of the entire state’s urban
forest, which is in addition to the half-billion rural, park and forest
trees also killed by the drought.

And while drenching rains have helped ease drought conditions in many areas
of the Lone Star State in recent weeks, the threat of future arboreal
fatalities is far from over.

The forest service’s lead researcher, Pete Smith, says many of the
surviving trees have been stressed beyond repair.

The loss of the shade trees could cost up to $280 million in additional
utility bills.

Restrictions that limited many homeowners to watering their property only
once every week or two weeks have been lifted for the first time since
April 2011.



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