a recent event in our history.
I know this is recent history but I thought it might of some interest.
The drought stated in 1931 and continued for the next four years. During this time Dust storms went through northern Texas, the panhandle of Oklahoma and Arkansas. People died from dust pneumonia, cattle and other stock went blind by the sand that whipped by. Many died as they were buried unable to find water. It got into everything. People taped their windows put up wet sheets over that, and still woke up coughing with the dust on the face and in their lungs. Then came Black Sunday. April 4 1935.
This dust storm was 2 thousand feet high 100 miles across. Travelling at 100 miles per hour. By the time it was done a total of 850 million tons of top soil had blown off the land. How to describe what was left? Stripped and lifeless as in a coma areas that were thought never be productive again and over one hundred thousand people gone.
The drought stated in 1931 and continued for the next four years. During this time Dust storms went through northern Texas, the panhandle of Oklahoma and Arkansas. People died from dust pneumonia, cattle and other stock went blind by the sand that whipped by. Many died as they were buried unable to find water. It got into everything. People taped their windows put up wet sheets over that, and still woke up coughing with the dust on the face and in their lungs. Then came Black Sunday. April 4 1935.
This dust storm was 2 thousand feet high 100 miles across. Travelling at 100 miles per hour. By the time it was done a total of 850 million tons of top soil had blown off the land. How to describe what was left? Stripped and lifeless as in a coma areas that were thought never be productive again and over one hundred thousand people gone.
