{"id":34518,"date":"2018-05-24T18:58:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T23:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34518"},"modified":"2018-05-24T18:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T23:58:26","slug":"drought-conditions-in-the-southwest-are-so-bad-that-they-are-already-being-compared-to-the-dust-bowl-of-the-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34518","title":{"rendered":"Drought Conditions In The Southwest Are So Bad That They Are Already Being Compared To The Dust Bowl Of The 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drought Conditions In The Southwest Are So Bad That They Are Already Being Compared To The Dust Bowl Of The 1930s<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\"\"<\/a>The worst drought to hit the Southwest in decades continues to grow even worse, and many are already comparing this current crisis to the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.\u00a0 Agricultural production is way down, major rivers are running dry, and horses are dropping dead from a lack of water.\u00a0 The epicenter of this drought is where the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico all come together, but it is also devastating areas of north Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas as well.\u00a0 Portions of seven states are already at the highest level of drought on the scale that scientists use, and summer won\u2019t even start for about another two months.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t start seeing some significant rainfall, it won\u2019t be too long before massive dust storms start devastating the entire region.\u00a0 The mainstream media is finally beginning to wake up and start reporting on this crisis, and some reporters are choosing to make a direct comparison between this drought and the Dust Bowl conditions during the Great Depression<\/a>\u2026<\/ins><\/p>\n

Drought conditions are so severe across much of the Southwest that they rival those during the disastrous Dust Bowl period of the 1930s<\/strong>, when severe dust storms killed livestock and caused crops to fail.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma State Climatologist Gary McManus said some climatological stations in the western part of his state have recorded less than 2 inches of rain since October.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of those stations are pegging the driest 7-to-8 months on record for those locations,\u201d McManus said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you are not familiar with the Dust Bowl period, you should be able to find a good documentary online to watch.\u00a0 It was one of the most painful periods in American history, and we could be right on the verge of a repeat.<\/p>\n

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Drought Conditions In The Southwest Are So Bad That They Are Already Being Compared To The Dust Bowl Of The 1930s The worst drought to hit the Southwest in decades continues to grow even worse, and many are already comparing this current crisis to the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.\u00a0 Agricultural production is way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[220,4901,20234,15913,827],"class_list":["post-34518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-drought","tag-michael-snyder","tag-southwest-united-states","tag-the-american-dream-blog","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34519,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518\/revisions\/34519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}