Diann and Max Rudd said that lakefront
marinas and everything else in western Oklahoma are suffering from a four-year
drought that has devastated boating, crops and the general economy. Further
east, the new oil industry of fracking is thought by some to have caused
unusual earthquakes of 2.0 to 5.0 magnitude because the drilling extends
thousands of feet down and rattles the subsurface. They found hours of sailing
on the York River to be pretty serene.