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Friday, May 15, 2009
News Drought free at last
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Whew.
Wait. What does this mean for the drought surcharge?
Above average rainfall over the past few months has lifted all of North Carolina out of drought for the first time in more than two years.The federal drought map released Thursday shows that widespread rainfall in recent weeks brought improvements throughout the state, most notably in 14 mountain counties that had been North Carolina's only area still experiencing drought.
Of 100 counties, 53, mostly in the mountains and coastal plain, remain abnormally dry.
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