Presidio
Feb 27 2006, Irani

One of the world’s great rivers — the Rio Grande is today reduced to a feeble trickle. It only seems to be awaiting its disappearance from the world map?! It is being said the land, next to the Rio Grande in Texas, has probably been continuously...

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Water flows over a levee from the Rio Grande flooding a golf course and some ranch land in Presidio, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. No homes appeared immediately threatened by the flow.