Little D, I lived in the Okla. Panhandle from 1980 to 1990 I spoke to and have heard many many First hand accounts of the Dirty Thirty's. My Wife's Dad folks were Driven out of their home in NE New Mexico and WERE in the mass Exodus to California, found the living tougher than from where they had come from So they Returned! But the Dust Storms continued Well into the 80s just not to the severity, and areas covered when they hit. My wife tells of a dust storm that hit the Central Tx Panhandle area. Spring Break of 1977 that closed roads and Kept a whole bunch of College Kids on Campus 1 or 2 days more before they could go Home! It Ain't just the Dirty Thirty's when Dust storms hit. The Panhandle was in a major Drought, coupled with poor farming practices is what set the chain of events into motion that we call the Dirty Thirty's. I personally was in an area Dust storm in the Lamar Colorado area in the spring of 1987. Was going Snow Sking @ the Copper Mt. 3 of us guys followed a Bulk trailer Semi into this Mess we could only, Barely make out the Frost white Mud Flaps on the Back of the trailer Nothing more forward! we followed about 15 ft off the back of the trailer at 30 mph! for 20 or so miles, Don't ever want to have to have to do that again!! Them we popped out of it as fast as we went into it! The advent of better Summer Fallow Practices, leaving the majority of the last crop residue "On top" for the more arid High Plains area, Use of Big Sweep plows, and only using One-way disc plows only when absolutely necessary. CRP was brought back into existence a Derivative of the old "Soil Bank Program" of the 50's to get these marginal cultivated lands out of production and back into Grass. Hope this helps! Later, John A.
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