Dead fish litter dried-up pond near Texas river as drought worsens, video shows

Dead fish litter the cracked dirt of what was once a pond beside the Trinity River, their bodies mummified by the Texas sun, video shows.

The clip, recently shared on social media, is only 21 seconds long, but it puts the worsening drought into dire perspective.

“I’m in DFW and that’s the worst and saddest thing I’ve seen yet, besides everything catching fire,” a commenter wrote on the post.

“What is rain?” asked another. “I heard it’s beautiful.”

This summer has been a harsh welcome to Texas for Edwin Amaya, a recent transplant from Florida who captured the video and posted it in a Facebook group.

“The grass is far from green here and definitely crunchy,” he said.

But even by Texas standards, the last two months have been particularly cruel.

Dallas-Fort Worth has experienced 28 days of triple-digit heat as of Aug. 2, tying the third-place record.

But worse than the heat is the drought, and that’s not likely to improve, Juan Hernandez, National Weather Service meteorologist, told McClatchy News.

“Until something major happens, a pattern change or a tropical system, we really don’t see an end to this any time in the next few weeks,” Hernandez said.

“There’s water being lost every day,” he said, and if trends continue, officials may need to take measures to reduce consumption.

This reflects what most of the state is experiencing, with an estimated 24,137,000 Texans living in counties under drought conditions, according to the drought monitor.

It has been 60 days since any measurable rainfall over DFW, the second longest streak recorded, according to Hernandez.

The longest streak, 84 days, was set in 2000, Hernandez said, and there’s a good chance that record could be broken this year.

“It’s something we can definitely achieve if this pattern holds,” he said.

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