Tornado Alley (PROG)

[fuagf]

Edit: Freshwater Losses In The Middle East .. looks a time-lapse toward your map ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrId7h-FtAA

.. the above video gleaned from Wikipedia ..

The Tigris–Euphrates river system is part of the palearctic Tigris–Euphrates alluvial salt
marsh ecoregion, in the flooded grasslands and savannas biome, located in Western Asia.

This visualization shows variations in total water storage from normal, in millimeters, in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins, from January 2003 through December 2009. Reds represent drier conditions, while blues represent wetter conditions. The effects of the seasons are evident, as is the major drought that hit the region in 2007. The majority of the water lost was due to reductions in groundwater caused by human activities.

much more .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system

======

FRONTLINE | Preview "Syria Behind the Lines"| PBS

Published on Apr 2, 2013

Watch the full-length episode at http://video.pbs.org/video/2364993210/ (US Only)
http://to.pbs.org/13Rb99K Coming April 9, 2013. An unprecedented film documents the new and perilous reality of everyday life for both Syria's rebels and its regime.

In Syria's rural heartland, the bloody uprising against President Bashar Al Assad has taken a terrifying turn. The once-peaceful Orontes River valley is now a perilous sectarian front line where neighbor is fighting neighbor. Olly Lambert spent five weeks living on both sides, and his unprecedented film documents the everyday lives of rebels, government soldiers and the civilians who support them.

Watch on air and online April 9, 2013 at 10 pm ET on PBS.
http://to.pbs.org/13Rb99K

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hVT9LZYKDA

=====

The American Civil War, also known as the War between the States or simply the Civil War (see naming), was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States after several Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South"). The states that remained were known as the "Union" or the "North". The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories. Foreign powers did not intervene. After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing rights to the freed slaves began.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War