drought-ridden

And if you build your house in the middle of a drought-ridden desert, it might get burned to the ground.

California is Burning | My[confined]Space 2009

By blocking moisture - bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the South .... etc. etc.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2010

In August 1921, the Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts, reported that a schooner lying off the uninhabited island of Nomans Land, about twenty miles away, was “dispensing refreshment in a truly hospitable manner to all drought-ridden individuals who can sail, row or swim out to the trim-looking fisherman.”

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Here we were in drought-ridden Colorado and suddenly we were being deluged with day after day of rain.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010

Here we were in drought-ridden Colorado and suddenly we were being deluged with day after day of rain.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010

"Dry Land," with its description of torrential rains that keep grapes from growing and make wine a precious commodity, seems to imagine what would happen to Australia's drought-ridden farmland if it got months, even years of constant precipitation.

Review of “Things We Didn't See Coming,” stories by Steven Amsterdam W. Ralph Eubanks 2010

Here we were in drought-ridden Colorado and suddenly we were being deluged with day after day of rain.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010

Millers and bakers had been looking to Argentina and Australia to produce enough wheat to make up for a severe shortfall in drought-ridden Russia.

Dark Clouds Boost Natural Gas 2010

In August 1921, the Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts, reported that a schooner lying off the uninhabited island of Nomans Land, about twenty miles away, was “dispensing refreshment in a truly hospitable manner to all drought-ridden individuals who can sail, row or swim out to the trim-looking fisherman.”

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Perhaps because they loved the play so much, most of the songs in 110 In the Shade come directly from Nash's script about a con man who claims he can bring rain to a drought-ridden town -- sort of a meaner Harold Hill -- and a single woman who doubts her own womanliness.

Little Red Hat Jaime J. Weinman 2009