I grew up in Elk City. Never went south that much except to the lake on the weekends. I am friends with the Boyds out of Rocky, if you know any of them.
wow you know its really dry in oklahoma and that is going to make things much worse and it all depends on how long it stays in the air.... That is going to wreck crops as well i am sure of. I wonder if its just one more use for harp make big winds on dryed out dirt and sand that might have hot particles in it to blanket arizona oklahoma, teaxes, kansas and the midwest. Dose not look good!!
Not quite the same. The year the dust bowl happened is 1930 - 1936 and in some areas 1940. It was much worse than this isolated incident.
Granted this one was pretty bad, but nowhere near the dust bowl.
The dust bowl didn't just come from drought and high winds. We have those today. Farming practices, huge wildfires stripping the land of grass, etc caused the dust bowl. Newer farming practices, and the shelter belts have contributed to the lack of major dust storms.
We still have them, just not as severe.
I have a double volume of Kay and Grant county histories complete with pictures, from the land run days forward.
Great Grandpa's land did not have a tree one, on over a thousand acres. Now, trees are abundant along the creeks, brush grows in the fence rows, etc.
Trust me the dust bowl isn't going to happen like it did in the past. Isolated areas may experience a little of it.
i wonder how far its going to travel oklahoma might just have some of this blow our way but trees will stop a good part of it.
Are you serious? You think a sand storm in Phoenix is going to blow all the way to Oklahoma?
I saw a tree once................................
Sorry my bad, that was a tumbleweed.
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