18 Jan 2021, Monday
18 Jan 2021, Monday
Prioritized Daily Task
I had a text from Michael late last night, he and Blake got home at 2:49 AM
8 AM - Legacy Center - exercise and walk with Debbie.
4 PM - Pibcoa Clinic, Ashlyn Spencer, the technician
In my reading of Bartram Travels and now The Boys in The Boat, I have learned much about this country and the people from the 1770s through 1936. Today I read about the dust storm in the 1930s, called the Dust Bowl that began in 1930 and did not end until 1936. 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 caused the phenomenon. Wikipedia Worst year: 1935 - I had heard of the dust bowl but did not really know much about it or any of the details. The newspapers wrote in 1935, the dust storms of the past were eclipsed by a single catastrophe on Sunday 14th of April, known as Black Sunday. In only a few hours, cold dry winds howling out of the north scoured from dry fields more than two times the amount of soil that has been excavated from the Panama Canal and lifted it eight thousand feet into the sky. Across much of five states, late afternoon sunlight gave way to utter darkness. The dust particles the wind carried generated so much static electricity in the air that barbed-wire fences glowed in the midday darkness. Farmers at work in their fields crumpled to their hands and knees and groped aimlessly about, unable to find their way to their own doorsteps. Cars careened off roads and into ditches, where their occupants clutched clothes to their faces, struggling to breathe, gagged, and coughing up dirt. Sometimes they abandoned their cars and staggered up to the houses of strangers and pounded on their doors begging for shelter.
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