This hot weather has me thinking of the Dust Bowl

[pphilfran]

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[pphilfran]

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[pphilfran]

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[jkm, the stolen pifwafwi]

I figured you'd be more into lego-lass

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[Position Limit]

interesting pictures pphilfan. makes me want to dust of my old steinbeck novel. no pun intended.

[Wishboned]

Who played in the Dust Bowl this year?

[tommieharris91]

Who played in the Dust Bowl this year?

Texas.

[soonercruiser]

Dyson took care of that!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1053042/funny_vacuum_commercial/

[XingTheRubicon]

bet they'd like to be 2011 poor

[GDC]

When you walk outside it feels like everything is about to explode.

[oumartin]

the drought we are in is worse than the dust bowl. Just advances in land management have prevented such a mess again.

[ouduckhunter]

It is amazing how many people who live out here on the west coast have roots in Oklahoma going back to the Dust Bowl days. Their families gave up and moved out here, and over time many of them became left coast wussified wimps!

[87sooner]

the drought we are in is worse than the dust bowl. Just advances in land management have prevented such a mess again.

yes and no...
heat and lack of rain....maybe...
economically....not even close....
get back to me in a couple years....that may change...
i hope this is more like 1980....just a one year aberration...

[thecynic]

Yeah, I don't know about weather conditions then as to now, but the "dust" part of the dust bowl was caused by inefficient farming. We've learned from that.

[texaspokieokie]

interesting pictures pphilfan. makes me want to dust of my old steinbeck novel. no pun intended.

Me too !!!

some of those could've been my parents, but my Dad had a job all thru the Depression. (@ least that's what i remember of what i've been told.)

Oil field, cable-tool driller.

[texaspokieokie]

It is amazing how many people who live out here on the west coast have roots in Oklahoma going back to the Dust Bowl days. Their families gave up and moved out here, and over time many of them became left coast wussified wimps!

there were so many Okies & descendants of Okies in places like Bell,Bell Gardens & South Gate, that the area was known as "Billy Goat Acres".

The Okies that moved out there were VERY tough & didn't turn into "wimps".
Maybe their kids did. Lotsa folks on west coast are not wimps.

Roosevelt got into the war, so everybody went into the military or got a job in a defense plant. Lockheed where i (much later) worked had 90,000
employees. Just in Burbank. Lockheed appears to have left Burbank & moved to Palmdale.

[ouwino]

read the book THE WORST HARD TIMES. those were some very tough people back then.

[Sooner_Tuf]

the drought we are in is worse than the dust bowl. Just advances in land management have prevented such a mess again.

This is absolutely correct.

[Fish&Game]

Ya'll got it rough...compared to these peeps in the Horn of Africa....