Saturday, January 30 –
Another breezy day on the south plains seemed to cause a bit of a stir on social media. Weather conditions caused the wind to whip up on the caprock. The top soil, which is vunerable this time of year because of lack of crop cover, was blown all the way to the Dallas area. This caused the people there who don’t often see a sky full of dirt to post pictures of the skies and sunset. Here’s an example taken in Fort Worth.
As sand storms go, Lubbock dwellers have seen much worse, but some people still enjoyed snapping shots and sharing them on the internet. Here’s a few I found on my feed.
The most interesting thing I saw was this video of the storm passing above the texas panhandle and the dust storm pushing through the caprock area into central Texas.
Doing a little research, I found that one of the worst ever sandstorms was in 1935. The day it hit was Sunday, April 14, 1935. It is known as “Black Sunday” because the dirt in the sky was black and the visibility so bad that it was said that a person couldn’t see their own hand in front of their face. The storm started in the midwest and then blew southeast and ended up coming down through Amarillo.
Does this look familiar? No, these gals weren’t trying to avoid a pandemic, just a dust storm.
