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The Dust Bowl
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:20 am
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:20 am
I’ve been watching Ken Burn's documentary about the Dust Bowl in the 30s and it’s interesting as hell. I lived in Oklahoma when I was a kid and we learned about it, but I was too young to really appreciate what happened or the struggles of the people that tied to farm it.
Wikipedia on it
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon.[1][2] The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the high plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.[3]
Black Sunday storm
Black Sunday refers to a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl.[1] It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and it caused immense economic and agricultural damage.[2] It is estimated to have displaced 300 million tons of topsoil from the prairie area in the US.[3]
Pretty famous photo of a woman ( Florence Owens Thompson) and her kids
Buried machinery in a barn lot; Dallas, South Dakota, May 1936:
The Great Depression was terrible for people around the country (and world), but people in the Great Plains had to deal with not only the bad economy but this crazy act of Mother Nature as well. Any of you baws have family that were from there?
Wikipedia on it
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon.[1][2] The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the high plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.[3]
Black Sunday storm
Black Sunday refers to a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl.[1] It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and it caused immense economic and agricultural damage.[2] It is estimated to have displaced 300 million tons of topsoil from the prairie area in the US.[3]
Pretty famous photo of a woman ( Florence Owens Thompson) and her kids
Buried machinery in a barn lot; Dallas, South Dakota, May 1936:
The Great Depression was terrible for people around the country (and world), but people in the Great Plains had to deal with not only the bad economy but this crazy act of Mother Nature as well. Any of you baws have family that were from there?
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Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:24 am to DavidTheGnome
It's a very good documentary. There are some good books out on the Dust Bowl worth reading too. It's a fascinating subject and good lesson on how much humans can alter the environment in a short time.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:26 am to DavidTheGnome
quote:you call that living?
. I lived in Oklahoma
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:27 am to redstick13
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It's a fascinating subject and good lesson on how much humans can alter the environment in a short time.
Global Warming is a hoax baw
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:35 am to DavidTheGnome
That 10 year stretch must've felt like the world was ending
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:36 am to DavidTheGnome
Imagine the liberal-global-climate-warming-change meltdown if this happened today.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:42 am to DavidTheGnome
I teach it to my 6th graders every year. They are amazed and stop whining about their trivial problems.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:43 am to Kay
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They are amazed and stop whining about their trivial problems.
until they pick their cell phones back up?
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:44 am to DavidTheGnome
The ensuing summer 1936 heat wave was brutal. The Wunderground blog has an interesting write-up about it:
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Figure 4. When the temperature peaked at an all-time high of 108°F in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 14, 1936, the want-ad staff at the St. Paul Daily News was provided with 400 pounds of ice and two electric fans to cool the air in the press room. Local newspapers noted that 51 heat-related fatalities occurred in the city on just this day alone. Image credit: Minnesota Historical Society.
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Figure 5. Residents of Lincoln, Nebraska spend the night on the lawn of the state capital on July 25, 1936. The temperature that night never fell below 91°F, perhaps the warmest night ever recorded anywhere in the United States outside of the desert Southwest. Image credit: Nebraska State Historical Society, via History Nebraska.
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Figure 6. Temperature departure from average during August 1936. The core of the anomalous heat shifted a bit to the south and east relative to July. Map from Monthly Weather Review, August 1936, U.S. Weather Bureau/American Meteorological Society.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:48 am to DavidTheGnome
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Pretty famous photo of a woman ( Florence Owens Thompson) and her kids
Picture was taken of her in California after her car broke down not in the Dust Bowl.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:53 am to DavidTheGnome
My grandmother remembers having to put wet towels under all the doors when the clouds came in, living in the Texas panhandle as a kid. Her dad was an oil man, and they were all over the west in her childhood. They were in town (somewhere just north of Lubbock), so didn't have the experience of the migrants in these photos. But, it was a great equalizer - everybody brought down by the depression and the dust.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:55 am to mostbesttigerfanever
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Imagine the liberal-global-climate-warming-change meltdown if this happened today.
The government response with soil conservation efforts and planting windbreaks helped to mitigate the problems (some of which were man made from poor farming practices) and the New Deal programs put people to work who otherwise would have starved. It’s a shame that we can’t learn from the past and cling to politics at our own peril.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:56 am to FeauxPaw
3,4,1,2
Posted on 12/5/19 at 11:04 am to DavidTheGnome
The Worst Hard Time is a fantastic book about the Dust Bowl. My great grandparents lived thru the Dust Bowl In Nebraska, those were some crazy stories
Posted on 12/5/19 at 11:10 am to ClampClampington
Shaw Funeral home and Chub Shaw from Vici,Ok and are prominently featured are long time family friends.
I grew up in SW Kansas and lived though incredible dust storms. Dust would fill up windows and doors. Tumble weeds would stack up higher than your house.
When I was in high school the dust was bad one afternoon as we were leaving the school to go lift at the football field. As we were driving it started raining. Literally raining mud.
I grew up in SW Kansas and lived though incredible dust storms. Dust would fill up windows and doors. Tumble weeds would stack up higher than your house.
When I was in high school the dust was bad one afternoon as we were leaving the school to go lift at the football field. As we were driving it started raining. Literally raining mud.
This post was edited on 12/5/19 at 11:11 am
Posted on 12/5/19 at 11:30 am to DavidTheGnome
quote:was moved from Shreveport due to lack of local support
The Dust Bowl
Posted on 12/5/19 at 12:58 pm to DavidTheGnome
Some more picture of it. Apparently the dust when it hits you at 50 to 60 mph blisters up your skin and it caused the livestock to suffocate because it got all in their nose and lungs.
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Posted on 12/5/19 at 1:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
This was very common even into the 70's in the Oklahoma panhandle and SW Kansas. I remember bar ditches full of dirt like that fence post high. It was powder and horrible.
It's what led agriculture to begin the CRP program to save the topsoil.
It's what led agriculture to begin the CRP program to save the topsoil.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 1:21 pm to mostbesttigerfanever
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Imagine the liberal-global-climate-warming-change meltdown if this happened today.
It sure is dry here in East Texas. We've had a fraction of our normal rainfall for months now. I hope this isn't happening again.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 1:24 pm to DavidTheGnome
It will happen again if society keeps pushing organic agricultural practices
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