Climate change has some Texas animals fleeing (North to escape) the Texas heat

http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/1540133.html

to Missurah.

Live in MO most of my life, and we never - never saw armadillos around KC until the past two or three years.

Now it's pretty routine to see them dead roadside.

It's the first one I've seen in 16 years in AZ.

The lack of birds, squirrels and other general wildlife in my backyard has been kind of creepy.

The mudwasps have been hovering near what little water I have in my rain barrels. The ants are still around, but so what else is new.

It's so quiet in my neighborhood now. I was hanging laundry yesterday, not a chirp. Nothing. The only sounds I heard was the occasional rooster crow by my neighbor down the way.

It's hot, dry and not a drop of rain in months.

I live in North Austin, while other areas of Austin have gotten rain, we haven't gotten anything.

It's bad. Stage 2 drought level kicks in on 24th. Watering only between 12 midnight and 8am.

I was never a big lawn person, but it's a sea of straw here now all over the neighborhood. I'm waiting for the smaller trees to go next.

If we don't get rain soon, it's going to get really bad.

Today, the temp is 101.