8 years of drought leaves Oklahoma Panhandle dry

 
By Murray Evans
Published: September 7, 2008

BOISE CITY, Okla. (AP) - In the far reaches of the Oklahoma Panhandle — near where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountain foothills — Brent Balenseifen will look up at gathering storm clouds in the western sky. Somewhere, he knows, it's going to rain. But for most of the last eight years, that moisture usually hasn't fallen on Balenseifen's ranch near Keyes, or anywhere else in Cimarron County , for that ma...

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