"In a typical year, the winds ease up in mid-spring, and the dust tamps down. In the past three years, however, as the rains have failed and the land has dried up, the winds have continued into the searingly hot summers. As they blow, the soil disintegrates, and what little moisture there is in the earth evaporates. The soil quality is now so poor that on the few occasions when it does rain, the next day’s wind simply blows the newly moistened topsoil away." Read more: Dust Bowl Blues | The Nation thenation/article/175318/dust-bowl-blues#ixzz2Zi6iGXks Follow us: @thenation on Twitter | TheNationMagazine on Facebook
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:35:22 +0000
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