All stories
- Hot, dry conditions hammering lawns, foundations, businesses
- July 23, 2012
- Plants can’t avail themselves of lemonade and air conditioning to beat this suffocating weather. Thus, much of the local flora has been taking a pounding from one of the hottest, driest summers to blister the Midwest since the droughts of 1988 and the 1930s Dust Bowl.
Point of View
What’s your favorite place in Shawnee, and why?
“The magic bike path (75th and Pflumm) winds lazily through water and trees. I feel like I’m in fairy tale land!”
