Posted on 05/11/2019 11:57:00 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
On this day in 1934, a massive storm sends millions of tons of topsoil flying from across the parched Great Plains region of the United States as far east as New York, Boston and Atlanta. At the time the Great Plains were settled in the mid-1800s, the land was covered by prairie grass, which held moisture in the earth and kept most of the soil from blowing away even during dry spells. By the early 20th century, however, farmers had plowed under much of the grass to create fields. The U.S. entry into World War I in 1917 caused a great need for wheat, and farms began to push their fields to the limit, plowing under more and more grassland with the newly invented tractor
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Global Warming.
Around 1985, I was driving on a dirt road between Dodge City and Garden City. I saw a storm approaching and it turned out to be dust.
I had to pull over because the visibility was poor. It had a slight reddish tint and also made the radio fail. It didn’t last too long and I didn’t see any mention of it on the news.
Still a really big one would be bad.
Can one imagine the absolute hysteria should this happen today?
Or live in Lubbock, Texas to experience dust storms several times a year.
You guys must really go through the air filters on your vehicles.
I suspect that one came from Texas as the dirt in Kansas is black.
The first time I ever visited Lubbock, it was straight into a red dust storm. It was kicked up from that red soil south of there.
I’m on the KS/MO border. 2 weeks ago the rain left a reddish deposit (mud) on our cars, I assume the dirt was from TX or OK. I was happy it rained the next day and washed it all off.
Back in about 1950, a black dust storm rolled westward through the Texas panhandle. It was like night in the morning. My mother, for god knows whatever reason, drove me to school using roadside mail boxes to stay on the street.
At school, they kept us all in the auditorium with no classes that I can recall. It lasted all day. Modern schools would have told everyone to stay home.
Makes you wonder what name the Weather Channel would assign to it.
Right now it sounds like down in Texas Noah is about to show up!
Dust--Roy Rogers (1938)
Dusty Skies--Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1941)
After an extremely snowy and rainy winter, the Pacific Northwest is expected to have major fires this summer. MAJOR. Spokane and Coeur d’Alene are predicted to have worst air in America. Smoke from forests and also from flatlands with few trees but grass, planted and wild.
It is nothing scary just protect your eyes, lungs and check air filters.
I read the title and thought it was.
o.O
Drove through a dust storm in Oklahoma to pick up a troop’s wife at a more distant airport because the storm had canceled connecting flights...had hair-line scratches in the windshield and paint when all was said and done and had to change the air filter and hope the engine hadn’t gotten an internal “polish”..
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