Black Sunday
Sunday, Apr 14, 1935 rabbit drive; 5mi N; 2mi E of Hooker, OK
I do not know who took this photo. It was sent to me by a friend.
“Roller” or "black blizzard" - huge, towering, billowing clouds of dust that that would lift dust into the air as high as four miles and carry it as far away as two or three thousand miles and sweeping up 300,000 tons of topsoil, blocking the sun for several hours and causing the street lights to shine at 3 in the afternoon.
The most famous roller of all struck “On the fourteenth day of April, in nineteen-thirty-five,” in the words of one of Woody Guthrie’s dust bowl ballads. Guthrie was in Pampa, Texas, at the time, and was inspired to write
"So Long, It's Been Good to Know You...."
Google "black Sunday 1935" for more info.
Black Sunday
Sunday, Apr 14, 1935 rabbit drive; 5mi N; 2mi E of Hooker, OK
I do not know who took this photo. It was sent to me by a friend.
“Roller” or "black blizzard" - huge, towering, billowing clouds of dust that that would lift dust into the air as high as four miles and carry it as far away as two or three thousand miles and sweeping up 300,000 tons of topsoil, blocking the sun for several hours and causing the street lights to shine at 3 in the afternoon.
The most famous roller of all struck “On the fourteenth day of April, in nineteen-thirty-five,” in the words of one of Woody Guthrie’s dust bowl ballads. Guthrie was in Pampa, Texas, at the time, and was inspired to write
"So Long, It's Been Good to Know You...."
Google "black Sunday 1935" for more info.