By David Patterson
This week, Ruben Becerra, and Mark Jones who are running for Hays County Judge, answer this question: “With this explosive growth, is Hays County ready for the next seven year drought like we had in the 1950s?” During that drought the average annual rainfall was seven inches. Our normal annual rainfall is 32 inches.
The population of Hays County during 1957, the last year of that seven year drought, was about 16,800. During that drought the farmers abandoned their fields and slaughtered their livestock.The current Hays County population is over 350,000. Hays County grew by 84,000 from the 2010 to 2020 census.
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