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 ...