Texas photographer Wyman Meinzer documented the devastation in the state following a months-long drought. These images, which he took starting last June, show a scary, near-apocalyptic world of people and animals desperate for a drop of rain. Warning: some of these are graphic.
In hopes that the rains will come, optimistic farmers sow their wheat crop despite the extreme heat and choking dust that follows the tractors and plows.
Photograph by Wyman Meinzer
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In their constant search for food and water, cattle become emaciated in the relentless heat that reaches temperatures over 100 degrees.
Photograph by Wyman Meinzer
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Once a huge body of water and a nesting locale for Great Blue Herons, this stock tank is now bone dry, leaving this abandoned nest as a reminder of better times. Photograph by Wyman Meinzer
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A tiny puddle of water offers a lethal enticement of relief for any large mammal that might pass nearby. Desperate animals who seek to quench their thirst are quickly mired in the near bottomless mud and soon perish in the 112 plus degree weather. Photograph by Wyman Meinzer
Via: wymanmeinzer.com
Via: wymanmeinzer.com
