Cracks Shut Down Parched Athletic Field(Mesquite,TX)

[canegrl04]

Take a look at the video


http://www.nbc5i.com/news/9678407/detail.html

[jasons2k]

Man I'm glad I don't live up there in DFW anymore

[gboudx]

Back in the heatwave of 1998, the park across from our house looked worse than that. The cracks were so big, you could lose a baseball in them easily. I've noticed some parks in our area starting with cracks. By mid-Sept, assuming no rain, it will really be bad.

[jasons2k]

I remember the heat wave of '98. Not fun. It seems like there has been a lot more rain up there this year, maybe not "officially" but at least there has been some rain on the radar - even west of there today - that's a bit unusual to have these rain events WITH the heat.

[TexasStooge]

Back in the heatwave of 1998, the park across from our house looked worse than that. The cracks were so big, you could lose a baseball in them easily. I've noticed some parks in our area starting with cracks. By mid-Sept, assuming no rain, it will really be bad.

Oh, don't even remind me of that heat wave in '98!!

[Shoshana]

In the 1980 heat wave, our backyard in Dallas was had so many deep cracks in it we stopped even walking back there. I measured the cracks, and they were way more than 3 feet deep.