Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The 1950s Texas drought was a period between 1949 and 1957, in which the state received 30 to 50 percent less rain than normal, while temperatures rose above average. During this time period, Texans experienced the second, third and eighth-driest single years ever in the state – 1956, 1954 and 1951, respectively. The drought was described by a state water official as \"the most costly and one of the most devastating droughts in 600 years.\"Texas ranchers attempted to evade the effects of the drought by moving their cattle north to Kansas, but the drought spread to Oklahoma and Kansas by 1953. By that point, 75% of Texas recorded below normal rainfall amounts, and over half the state was more than 30 inches below normal rainfall. By 1954, the drought had affected a ten-state area reaching from the mid-west to the Great Plains, and southward into New Mexico."@en }
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- 1950s_Texas_drought abstract "The 1950s Texas drought was a period between 1949 and 1957, in which the state received 30 to 50 percent less rain than normal, while temperatures rose above average. During this time period, Texans experienced the second, third and eighth-driest single years ever in the state – 1956, 1954 and 1951, respectively. The drought was described by a state water official as \"the most costly and one of the most devastating droughts in 600 years.\"Texas ranchers attempted to evade the effects of the drought by moving their cattle north to Kansas, but the drought spread to Oklahoma and Kansas by 1953. By that point, 75% of Texas recorded below normal rainfall amounts, and over half the state was more than 30 inches below normal rainfall. By 1954, the drought had affected a ten-state area reaching from the mid-west to the Great Plains, and southward into New Mexico.".