Re: Video on the Dust bowl

Posted by Billy Shafer on January 17, 2013 at 06:29:05 from (173.184.47.107):

In Reply to: Video on the Dust bowl posted by jacksonduper on January 17, 2013 at 06:01:24:

My mother who just passed away at 82 lived through it in a tent.Told us these things.
1 Sand was every where tried wearing a cloth as a mask. Helped some.Sand was in your food,hair,bed,lungs. There was no way to escape it.

2 People were dieing because sand would fill there lungs. Hospitals were set up to deal with it.Everyone knew for most it was a one way trip.

3 Saw cars with the paint blasted off. Just bare shiny metal showing.

4Hung their cooking pots and pans out in the wind to let the sand clean them. Saved the water which was in short supply.

5 Stayed hungry most of the time. No money for food and no animals to hunt. Sand had killed them all.

6 The worst thing she saw. Was at the owners house that owned the land they had the tent on. Went inside one day to get some rusty sand water. Found the couple sitting in rocking chairs. Both dead covered in sand. Even at 82 she could still see them sitting there. Never forgot it. My grandfather and some other guys. Buried the couple in the back yard.

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