The Black Blizzards of Oklahoma
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- What the farmers who settled Oklahoma's lands didn't know was that the years of plentiful rain were only a brief segment of a cycle that would bring drought, dust storms, and devastation.
From: AERIAL AMERICA: Oklahoma
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I lived 8 years in Stillwater, OK. One of the best periods of my life. The people are unbelievable - kind, generous, open-hearted, good-natured... I have left a big part of my soul there.
Glad you enjoyed your stay! Go Pokes!
@@TheOkstate Loved every bit of it! :)
I passed through there timer 2
Does it look the same as it did back then
@@michaelpettengill4789 Not exactly. I visited Stillwater 2 years ago and saw lots of changes. New buildings rise, old ones disappear. Lots of new faces, while some people (including very dear ones) are gone...
But it seems that the spirit is still there! :)
The Dust Bowl was a combination of drought years & over cultivating the land. Kansas & New Mexico was affected by it too. Those who lived thru it tell stories of people having to keep dishes upside down.
That was in the movie Interstellar, which used clips from Ken Burn's The Dust Bowl.
Don't forget it was impossible to breathe during those dust storms. I left as soon as I turned 18. Never looked back
and we learned nothing from it because we are still repeating the same mistakes but on a 100x bigger scale. millions of humans were never meant to live in a compact concrete city and let rural giant monocrop farms grow food drenched in poison. humans are meant to live spread out just like any animal and we are supposed to grow our own food which is quite easy to do on minimal land. the old ways of regenerative agriculture work, this importing synthetic poisons to feed an addiction of our dying topsoil will never be sustainable.
Come ON! There are historical pictures of those terrible days. Why do we see modern Oklahoma?
smitsonian burned the original images
Drought comes with the territory for Oklahoma farmers.
But nobody expected the Black Blizzards of 1935: The Black Blizzards of Oklahoma
Mother nature do take care all by herself sometimes.
I noticed the old Karmann Ghia in the junkyard
I come from Appalachia. The region was rich until the late 1800s, when ecological disaster struck. Deforestation and overpopulation combined with bad farming practices.
Wow. That was fascinating. Thank you!
I just thought about Woody Guthrie. Do people know him in 2019? Google him if you’ve never heard of Woody Guthrie. He had a famous son, Arlo.
Famous, really? A flash in the pan...the father's songs are still sung...
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant. 🤷♂️. Cult classic Thanksgiving song.
I drove across Oklahoma in the summer of 1983. Our car had no AC we needed to stop at about 1130 am and get a motel as it was about 110 degrees. We left Oklahoma in the dark. It was truly a miserable experience. Way to hot for me, you can keep it.
Kind of you're fault dont cha think.
@@romanbernal9157 My wife is from Texas and she always says how brutally hot it is in the summer. I know some people love 100 plus degree temps. Me I am four season person. The no AC was on me. So yes.
Super interesting!
I'm glad it happened. Two sets of my grandparents where born in the 1920's and grew up in Kansas and Oklahoma during the dust bowl. Both families fled amd moved to Oregon where my grandparents met during WW2. So if the dustbowl hadn't have ever happened I wouldn't have ever been born, and I'm guessing there are millions of other dust bowl decendants who can claim the same thing.
Seeing that young antelope in the opening shot reminds me of the large herds we would see as we drove across Oklahoma until the late 1970s. I-40 was fairly new and it seems the herds took a few years before staying completely away fron the highway.
@ElvisStorm The book, The Children's Storm, taught me that trees don't take to such places with winds and other weather conditions, thus they are the Great Plains.
The crew who shot this took the term "flyover country" too literally.
One of the best channels on yt
Our Sunday drives from Tulsa out into the dry high (basically) desert areas told me in GRADE SIX that this is not like where we were from, a black loam area of Canada with very cold winters but humid, thunderstorm summers. Two decades ago when I flew to Ottawa from Seattle you could see a GREEN LINE right across the Canadian/USA 49th. parallel. Huge irrigation ground water draws on the USA side, none on the Canadian side, both DRY PRAIRIE. Do the math. Has "big agri" in the USA actually learned anything??? Nope.
We need a complete overhaul of water rights, agricultural irrigation, and subsidies in the Western US. Very few of these states are sustainable.
The Great Plains are going to have another Dust Bowl, sooner or later. (The aquifers are getting depleted!)
This Video Is Great, But Even Better With Creo - Dimension On Background Music.
This video really could have used a picture of the dust storms he was talking about. I found a bunch on google that were interesting. Instead we got 4 minutes of B-roll news content.
Wasn't born here but I got here as soon as I could
Settlers is such a nice word.
🤔I can see what you're saying, but the vast majority of the original people encouraged to move there WERE "just settlers". It was the govt's armies who were most responsible for "relocating" the natives who were already living there. It was primarily after the land was (mostly)cleared of natives, that the settlers arrived(at the behest of the government).
👉A LOT of the "settlers" were newly arrived, legal immigrants from various foreign countries. They weren't warriors. As usual, most of the war and oppression was ordered and directed by government, NOT by the regular people!
👎Same with this current trial of the officer who arrested George Floyd. BOTH of them were living and operating within a government system and rules created by democratic party politicians. The cop was using a legally accepted tactic he was literally trained to use! George Floyd was living under a system where he spent his life being "conditioned" by democrats, leftist activists and corrupt "civil rights leaders" to believe he had NO chance of succeeding in life, because of his skin color. So its no wonder he got into drugs and crime! But he too lived "in a system" literally created and perpetuated by democrats who've controlled that city for a long time!
But guess who are the ONLY people NOT being blamed for ANY of the situation? The democrats who created the system(as usual)! 👹😈👺
I watched almost the whole thing thinking, “What does this have to do with buzzards?”
The book named “Four Winds” lead me here 😢
Nice how they included all those fantastic historical pictures from the Smithsonian Repository
NOT
Never knew there was antelope in Oklahoma
These are the guys who made the "giant squid" book
I have never seen a lone pronghorn like that, they are always in herds
I have lived in 10 states. Originally from Ohio. Now in Florida. Oklahoma has the best people I've ever met. Total strangers become like family in minutes!
In part, the disaster was man made.
In part?
@@MrEazyE357 yes
@@EthanL21800 the whole thing was man made. Prairie grass that was there forever is what held the topsoil in place during times of drought. Farmers plowed under the prairie grass to plant wheat corn and whatever else. When droughts occurred their crops didn’t grow, leaving the topsoil bare. End result was the topsoil blowing away, to the east, as if that mattered.
GREAAAAAATTTT
Hope someone grabbed up that Karman Ghia and restored it by now.
Drought- Normal Conditions for this area.
Ah.. The grapes ran out to greener pasture
No trees
Bro that’s my town
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Is that how you pronounce "Boise City"? It's not pronounced like "Boise"?
It’s actually pronounced that way. We also have a town called “Miami” that’s pronounced “mi-am-uh”. Born and raised in OK, counting down the days till I leave.
Huh.. We have a town here called Nevada.. Everyone pronounces it NevAduh.
California beat their record
Overuse amd destroy an area and then pick up stakes and move on to another location. Sounds like a virus.
We need to develop and incorporate Graphine technology for massive desalination plants and change the world.
Why don’t they just mass scale distill seawater? They could have clean water and fresh sea salt.
Might help reduce sea level rise due to climate change.
The real issue is over population and living in places that can not truly support us. I think sea to fresh water takes a great deal of power, more greenhouse gases.
Scott Gibson power from solar and wind 🤷♂️
Chasing that deer, was the best thing that happened to the helicopter pilot all day
Fyi...that was a pronghorn antelope. They are a herd animal, question is...why is it alone?
@@greatplainsman3662 oh yeah pronghorn.. I was trying to research it, but thought it must've been some sort of deer. Thanks
A lone stag, old enough to challenge, that has been ousted from the herd probably..
Someday an earthquake will most likely destroy large portions of California. Every place has had and will have challenges.
Haha whataboutism. Can't deal with any honest appraisal can you.
aint get no money talk literally
I just love YT mispronunciations. It probably should be pronounced like boy-z, like Idaho..
The narrator’s pronunciation of Boise City, Oklahoma is correct. It is not pronounced the same way as Boise, Idaho.
Boise= Boy•zee