Marc Piscotty
Jimmy Brown is Kiowa County s elected coroner, its only funeral director and a third-generation. Exceptional drought has prompted increases in anxiety and depression, but getting people to talk about it won t be easy.
EADS - The Splotch, as some here call the brown mark on the map they check weekly, is the color of scorched earth.
Here in Kiowa County, farmers have always relied on whatever moisture happens to fall from the sky rather than on irrigation. In August, this 1,300-person community bordering on Kansas was the first part of Colorado where drought conditions surpassed extreme to a level meteorologists call exceptional.
EADS | “The Splotch,” as some here call the brown mark on the map they check weekly, is the color of scorched earth. Here in Kiowa County, farmers have always relied on whatever moisture happens [.]
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