A lot of things have changed since then - so we are not even close to any danger of it becoming like it was.
For one huge thing, one-way plows were so common, cheap, and effective weed control back then that practically every farmer across the high-plains used them. But they tend to bury all the trash and leave the surface bare... The cumulative effect of hundreds of thousands of acres in that condition was a huge factor in those storms.
Nowadays, almost no farmers leave the soil unprotected like that. Farmers spend a lot of time strategizing over how to protect the soil.
Plus, half the country or more in this area is in CRP and protected by checkerboard patterns of thick grass.
I was in the local Dairy Queen on a main highway as this hit - and one of the seasonal "snow birds" migrating from up north to Phoenix for the winter came in very wide-eyeed and frantic asking if this was "normal" and if the storm was going to "damage their vehicle" and if they needed to get it into a garage.
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