Drought causes foundation headaches in Oklahoma

 
BY MICHAEL KIMBALL mkimball@opubco.com
Published: September 25, 2011

Oklahoma 's red dirt is as much a part of the state's cultural fabric as agriculture, oil fields and strange weather. But it can be a curse to house foundations in times of drought.

“We like our red dirt here,” said Gary McManus , associate state climatologist. “But it doesn't do us any favors whenever we start to go into this type of a drought cycle.”

The exceptional drought strangling Oklahoma's ...


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