Things are so dry here in Denver area that many restaurants will not provide you with a glass of water until you ask for it. There's apparently some talk of actually charging for a glass of water.

Same here in Jersey, TEd. Drought's so bad my tomatoes stopped growing. We got back our lawn and garden-watering (every other day) about 4 weeks ago...the lawn you can let go. But it's so dry that if you let the garden go over a day it all starts drooping badly, so the garden plants have got to get a daily drink. My cucumbers didn't even come up for the first time ever (oops...somebody's gonna run with that one ). Still no car washing allowed. And people weren't even allowed to refill their pools till the end of May when we got about a week of moisture (but not enough). Just before all the fires out West got started we had a big one here in the Pine Barrens in Ocean/Atlantic counties....actually closed down the Garden State Parkway.

Calling all rain dancers!!!