The dust bowl '09

[CARS]

Yesterday was complete hell here in southern MN. Constant winds in the 40's and gusts in the 60's combined with a dry spring made for an aweful day.

My wife called me at work and told me that shingles were lifting and the east wall of our chicken run was coming apart. So I came home and tried to keep the pieces together. I had to wear goggles because the dirt was blowing so much, people were driving with their headlights on, and the sky was just black. I have never seen anything like this in my 37 years on earth.

I took some pics this morning of the aftermath.

Inside my garage (yes, the doors were closed)

Here is a drift of dirt up on my lawn (the black is topsoil from the field across the road.

Inside my barn

It is going to take days to get this place cleaned up again. The wife and I have been working all morning on cleaning the house (a 40's farm house with original (leaky) windows). There were little dirt drifts between the windows and the storm windows.
I started up my car this morning and when the fan turned on a dust cloud came out from the vents!

Yuck!!!

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Wow! How wide spread is this problem?? Is it really like it was in the 30's?

 

[monarc23]

wow! that's craziness!!!! How do the animals outside handle it? just close their eyes and breath through their fur/feathers? *seriously curious* I know how camels deal with it buuuut lol.

 

[CARS]

It's just like any other storm, be it a tornado, hurricane, snow storm, etc.

The birds actually liked it.....
They were able to dust bath without digging around!!! (rim shot!

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Everyone lived, but I lost a half a day yesterday keeping things together and a half a day cleaning up this morning.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Seriously that's top soil???

 

[CARS]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

Seriously that's top soil???

Yes.

The area farmers are already preparing to replant the bean crop that was up. The corn is fine but the beans really took a hit.

I wish I would have taken pictures of my bedroom window sill. Yuck!​

 

[gudrin]

Criminy! I knew the wind was bad in Minnesota, but I didn't know it was blowing like that! I also live in an agricultural area, but we didn't have that issue. Yuck! My best to you that everything is fine.

From,
A Fellow Minnesotan