{"id":28746,"date":"2018-03-19T00:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T00:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28746"},"modified":"2018-03-19T00:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T00:47:39","slug":"this-is-what-the-dust-bowl-looked-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28746","title":{"rendered":"This is what the Dust Bowl looked like?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dirt-in-the-air.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28747\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dirt-in-the-air-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dirt-in-the-air-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dirt-in-the-air-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dirt-in-the-air.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dust Bowl, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>What you see here is a picture I snapped this evening looking west from where we are living. The wind is howling. The weather apps on my cell phone and my wife&#8217;s cell phone tell us it&#8217;ll keep howling through the night and into the next day.<\/p>\n<p>This picture frightens me a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to equate what we&#8217;re seeing here in 2018 to what Texas Panhandle witnessed in the 1930s, when hideously ignorant farming practices coupled with a severe drought created the nation&#8217;s worst-ever man-made environmental disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Burns&#8217;s documentary, &#8220;The Dust Bowl,&#8221; told that story in a gripping series that aired on Panhandle PBS a couple years ago. Elderly residents who lived through the Dust Bowl as children recalled watching their siblings and young friends die of &#8220;dust pneumonia.&#8221; They talked about how they either fled the High Plains or remained to rebuild their lives destroyed by Mother Nature&#8217;s merciless wrath.<\/p>\n<p>Are we heading for another catastrophe? No. I don&#8217;t intend to suggest such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>The picture I have posted with this blog item, though, intends to illustrate that we are getting a touch &#8212; perhaps only a smidgen &#8212; of what this region&#8217;s ancestors endured during a much darker time.<\/p>\n<p>We all are ready for some rain.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dust Bowl, anyone? What you see here is a picture I snapped this evening looking west from where we are living. The wind is howling. The weather apps on my cell phone and my wife&#8217;s cell phone tell us it&#8217;ll keep howling through the night and into the next day. This picture frightens me a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28746\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is what the Dust Bowl looked like?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[1482,2649,3485,3487],"class_list":["post-28746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","category-local-news","tag-dust-bowl","tag-ken-burns","tag-panhandle-drought","tag-panhandle-pbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28748,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746\/revisions\/28748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}