Bone dry ...

A formerly submerged boat sticks straight out of newly exposed ground at Lake Mead.

Photo: John Locher (AP)

Bone dry says it all regarding Lake Mead. Question, why is anybody buying property in the SW???

Stranded boats, desiccated fish, and no water on cracked ground that once made a shoreline. That’s the new business-as-usual for Lake Mead, where the West’s punishing drought and chronic water overuse have combined to render the lake almost unrecognizable as water levels continue to plummet.

Friends smoke cigarettes near the sunken vertical boat.Photo: John Locher (AP)