Source:  BLUERIDGE NOW, 1/26/17

A new report shows that widespread rain is gradually relieving the Deep South's ongoing drought, leaving only a handful of counties in North Carolina, Alabama and Georgia with extreme drought conditions. A national report on the drought released Thursday found that rain drenched a large part of an area that has been abnormally dry, from northern Louisiana to the Carolinas and Virginia.

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