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Perry's Texas- US Hell, Wildfires, Dust Storms and illegals
Posted by:
MyTexasHell
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Date: October 21, 2011 01:41PM
Whipping winds will threaten more dust storms and fires across Texas through the middle of this week.
Gusts greater than 40 mph across much of Texas will follow a potent cold front, keeping the threat high for these dangers. The howling winds will help pick up dust due to the bone-dry conditions gripping the Lone Star state.
Respiratory problems can result from blowing dust, especially for sensitive groups such as people with asthma.
Blowing dust could suddenly reduce the visibility below a quarter of a mile to near zero at times, creating a very dangerous situation for motorists.
Pictures and videos from the Lubbock Dust Storm on Monday show how significantly and quickly the visibility can drop in these nasty dust storms.
Gusts greater than 40 mph across much of Texas will follow a potent cold front, keeping the threat high for these dangers. The howling winds will help pick up dust due to the bone-dry conditions gripping the Lone Star state.
Respiratory problems can result from blowing dust, especially for sensitive groups such as people with asthma.
Blowing dust could suddenly reduce the visibility below a quarter of a mile to near zero at times, creating a very dangerous situation for motorists.
Pictures and videos from the Lubbock Dust Storm on Monday show how significantly and quickly the visibility can drop in these nasty dust storms.
Re: Perry's Texas- US Hell, Wildfires, Dust Storms and illegals
Posted by:
Registered Voter
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Date: October 21, 2011 01:46PM
History repeats itself - sort of. At least the drought - 7 years...
The Dust Bowl
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/Cunfer.DustBowl
...Despite the multiple uses of the phrase "Dust Bowl" it was an event which occurred in a specific place and time. The Dust Bowl was a coincidence of drought, severe wind erosion, and economic depression that occurred on the Southern and Central Great Plains during the 1930s. The drought – the longest and deepest in over a century of systematic meteorological observation – began in 1933 and continued through 1940. In 1941 rain poured down on the region, dust storms ceased, crops thrived, economic prosperity returned, and the Dust Bowl was over. But for those eight years crops failed, sandy soils blew and drifted over failed croplands, and rural people, unable to meet cash obligations, suffered through tax delinquency, farm foreclosure, business failure, and out-migration. The Dust Bowl was defined by a combination of:
- extended severe drought and unusually high temperatures
- episodic regional dust storms and routine localized wind erosion
- agricultural failure, including both cropland and livestock operations
- the collapse of the rural economy, affecting farmers, rural businesses, and local governments
- an aggressive reform movement by the federal government
- migration from rural to urban areas and out of the region
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University
The Dust Bowl
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/Cunfer.DustBowl
...Despite the multiple uses of the phrase "Dust Bowl" it was an event which occurred in a specific place and time. The Dust Bowl was a coincidence of drought, severe wind erosion, and economic depression that occurred on the Southern and Central Great Plains during the 1930s. The drought – the longest and deepest in over a century of systematic meteorological observation – began in 1933 and continued through 1940. In 1941 rain poured down on the region, dust storms ceased, crops thrived, economic prosperity returned, and the Dust Bowl was over. But for those eight years crops failed, sandy soils blew and drifted over failed croplands, and rural people, unable to meet cash obligations, suffered through tax delinquency, farm foreclosure, business failure, and out-migration. The Dust Bowl was defined by a combination of:
- extended severe drought and unusually high temperatures
- episodic regional dust storms and routine localized wind erosion
- agricultural failure, including both cropland and livestock operations
- the collapse of the rural economy, affecting farmers, rural businesses, and local governments
- an aggressive reform movement by the federal government
- migration from rural to urban areas and out of the region
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University
Re: Perry's Texas- US Hell, Wildfires, Dust Storms and illegals
Posted by:
Dusty
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Date: October 21, 2011 01:46PM
Didn't Texans learn from the great dust era's that you can't rob the land in Texas, that it results in dust storms?
Perry get your shit straighten out!
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/20/lubbock-texas-dust-storm-similar-to-dust-bowl-era-events.html
Whenever you see a dust cloud, there's an almost instinctual reflex to start talking about The Grapes of Wrath. It's natural. But it's often misplaced. Your average cloud of dirt is less apocalyptic than the dust storms that ripped across the Central Plains of the United States during the 1930s. They can also have different underlying causes.
But the dust storm that hit Lubbock, Texas, earlier this week can legitimately be called Dust Bowl-esque, according to the National Weather Service. That's the Lubbock storm on the right in the image above ... and a 1930s dust storm on the left.
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Perry get your shit straighten out!
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/20/lubbock-texas-dust-storm-similar-to-dust-bowl-era-events.html
Whenever you see a dust cloud, there's an almost instinctual reflex to start talking about The Grapes of Wrath. It's natural. But it's often misplaced. Your average cloud of dirt is less apocalyptic than the dust storms that ripped across the Central Plains of the United States during the 1930s. They can also have different underlying causes.
But the dust storm that hit Lubbock, Texas, earlier this week can legitimately be called Dust Bowl-esque, according to the National Weather Service. That's the Lubbock storm on the right in the image above ... and a 1930s dust storm on the left.
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