[spokeshave]

Lots of graphs etc on this earlier thread....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3046580/posts?page=41

[Hot Tabasco]

lived through the 1930s a time which was very likely as hot and dry

A number of years ago while on a pheasant hunting trip to the north west corner of Kansas, I stayed in a B & B owned by a 94 year old woman. What she had experience in her life out there was amazing and one of them was her personal account of surviving the great dust bowl of the 1930's......