(End of the American Dream)—Absolutely gigantic dust storms are “triggering massive highway pileups” in the middle of the country, virtually the entire Southwest is currently experiencing at least some level of drought, and dust storms and soil erosion are now costing our economy more than 100 billion dollars every year.
If you think that what we are witnessing is “normal”, you simply are not being rational. The same conditions that prevailed during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s are returning, and scientists have warned us that the megadrought that has now begun could continue for a long time to come.
Last month, a “series of enormous dust storms” caused a tremendous amount of chaos throughout the middle portion of the nation…
A series of enormous dust storms swept the plains states last week, triggering massive highway pileups, a spike in emergency room visits, and “dirty rain” a thousand miles away.
The storms were driven by winds in excess of 70 mph across a vast stretch of dry fields and prairie from New Mexico and western Texas.
In Kansas, at least 55 vehicles were involved in one particular highway pileup, and eight people ended up dying…
At least eight people died after more than 55 vehicles were involved in a crash due to a dust storm in Kansas, authorities said Saturday.
At 3:22 p.m. local time on Friday, high winds moved into northwest Kansas from Colorado, causing a severe dust storm, leading to traffic to slow due to near-zero visibility, resulting in multiple crashes on I-70.
Eight people died in the interstate pile-up, and numerous injuries were reported, the Kansas Highway Patrol said Saturday.
There were also vehicle pileups and traffic fatalities in Texas…
In Texas, four people were killed in car crashes around the city of Amarillo caused by a dust storm on Friday, according to the state’s public safety department.
One of the deaths happened after three lorries collided with four other vehicles in Palmer County, Bovina’s fire chief Cesar Marquez said. Another occurred after a pile-up of an estimated 38 cars.
“It’s the worst I’ve ever seen,” public safety department sergeant Cindy Barkley said, calling the near-zero visibility a nightmare.
Please read that last sentence again.
This is something that I keep hearing over and over. Nobody has ever seen it this bad.
As far north as Wisconsin, people were being warned to stay inside during the dust storms that suddenly erupted last month…
In their wake, air quality readings spiked well beyond levels deemed hazardous by the Environmental Protection Agency. Public health officials warned millions of people as far away as Wisconsin to stay indoors as the dust swept through.
“I’ve never been hit in the face with a shovel, but I imagine it feels something like this,” said a social media user in New Mexico who was diagnosed with dust pneumonia after visiting the hospital.
When the dust is so bad that it makes you feel like you have “been hit in the face with a shovel”, that is a sign that Dust Bowl conditions have returned to your community.
Let’s just be real honest here. Everything is not going to be okay, and the Southwest just keeps on getting even drier.
According to one report, the state of Texas “has struggled mightily in the rainfall department” so far in 2025…
Since the start of 2025, Texas has struggled mightily in the rainfall department. With the exception of the Piney Woods and parts of Southeast Texas near Houston, it has been a very, very dry start to the year.
If current trends continue, it won’t be too long before many areas of the state simply start running out of water…
Texas officials fear the state is gravely close to running out of water.
Towns and cities could be on a path toward a severe shortage of water by 2030, data compiled in the state’s 2022 water plan by the Texas Water Development Board indicates.
Despite all of our advanced technology, we just can’t defeat a megadrought.
Farther north, water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead have dropped to extremely low levels once again…
“Combined storage in Lake Powell and Lake Mead is down 691 [thousand-acre-feet] from this time last year, with storage at 33 percent of capacity.”
The lakes provide water to tens of millions of people across the U.S. Southwest and Mexico, support agricultural operations, and generate hydroelectric power.
Earlier estimates suggested Lake Mead would begin 2025 below the 1,075 foot level that triggers mandatory conservation measures under federal drought contingency plans.
This has become a recurring theme.
We are highly dependent on Lake Powell and Lake Mead, and if they keep going dry we are going to have a major crisis on our hands.
A decade ago, scientists tried to warn us that this would be coming…
Here in the American southwest, droughts have become something to expect, but a new study warns that the southwest and central plains could face a megadrought later this century unlike anything seen for millennia.
“(It could be) as bad as the 1930s Dust Bowl, but lasting for 35 years,” study co-author Toby Ault of Cornell told an audience of reporters at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where the results were announced Thursday.
The megadrought that they were warning about is now here.
In fact, we are being told that since the year 2000 conditions in the western half of North America “have been slightly drier on average than a similar megadrought in the late 1500s”…
The latest climate data show that the years since 2000 in western North America — from Montana to California to northern Mexico — have been slightly drier on average than a similar megadrought in the late 1500s.
Williams shared his findings with the Los Angeles Times, providing an update to his widely cited 2022 study, which he co-authored with scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Let that sink in.
What we are experiencing now is even worse than the megadrought of the 1500s.
If this megadrought persists, the Dust Bowl conditions in the middle of the country will only intensify.
So if you think that the dust storms are bad now, just wait, because you haven’t seen anything yet.
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Industrial agriculture was created after WWII when the explosives, poison gases and heavy machinery war contractors needed a new market for their products. Industrial agriculture will turn the Midwestern United States, the greatest agricultural land and climate in the world 75 years ago, into a desert within the lifetime of our children. Fertile, microbe-rich deep black top soil created by hundreds of centuries of the symbiotic relationship between wandering ruminants and grass lands have been washed down the Mississippi to the Gulf to create red tides on the Gulf Coast. Microbes which are the basis for soil fertility and plant immunity to pests and diseases can been destroyed by caustic fertilizers and toxic pesticides. Soil tilth, water retention and natural bacteria and fungus are ruined by the plow.
Almost none of that is true. Fertilizer is not caustic. There’s zero difference between a molecule of synthetic nitrogen and a molecule of nitrogen released from the breakdown of organic matter. None! Studies have shown that microorganisms thrive with added fertilizers, especially nitrogen, because they use it as fuel to break down organic matter, and as long as it is not over applied, it’s good for microbes and good for plants. Microbes use nitrogen and other chemicals just like every other organism. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sulpher, Calcium and Magnesium, and other micronutrients, are all essential to both microbes and plants and humans. But, just like too much of anything, too much synthetic fertilizers can be detrimental, but the idea that farmers are throwing excess fertilizer on their soil, just isn’t true, and besides, does not make sense. Fertilizer and pesticides are expensive. Farmers want to use as little as possible to maximize profits.
I live in Northwest Florida, on the Northern Gulf Coast, not too far from the mouth of the Mississippi River, and we rarely get Red Tides. I’ve lived here for over 50 years, and I can’t remember the last time we had a fish kill from Red Tide. They do happen, but they are more common in the warmer waters of South Florida, when there’s little influence from the Mississippi River, and it’s my understanding that they’ve always happened. Storm water runoff is a big problem, due to increased populations near the water. Pensacola Bay used to have a healthy scallop population, but storm water runoff decreased salinity and killed our scallops. The city and state have taken measures to mitigate storm water runoff, and the bay is getting healthy again.
The sky isn’t falling and people are not destroying the planet. When we create problems, we fix them, and move on. Without Midwestern farmers, we would all starve to death. They’re not perfect, and things need to change, like growing too much corn, because it’s subsidized for ethanol, but that is a political problem— not an agricultural problem.
If you drive I10 east from Arizona, you will eventually see signs in NM telling you what to do while driving in a zero visibility dust storm.
These signs have been up for years. Nothing new in this story.
Yup, droughts are a real thing throughout history. The problem is, we’ve build cities based on the assumption that droughts were just a thing that happened in the bible; they could never happen here in a modern society! When we have a real drought in the South and/or Mid West, it will be a a lesson of biblical proportions.
It is called Spring.
The windy happens every year.
Most Farmers plow in February. I wait until May, because; I don’t want the topsoil to blow away.
I am not one to truck in manuer, I would rather have a cover crop to feed the soil.
All this panic over climate is a mountain of manuer.
All those people making money off the LIE own waterfront mansions. Why is that?
How could they possibly know “that the years since 2000 in western North America — from Montana to California to northern Mexico — have been slightly drier on average than a similar megadrought in the late 1500s.” Did they find some long-lost data collection by the Spanish missionaries? Please! This is a load of fertilizer.
These “extreme” weather events are ENTIRELY manufactured and implemeted by the global cabal – we have been influencing, and then more recently controllong, the weather since before the Viet Nam War (look up “Operation Popeye” in wikipedia). This was always the cabal’s plan to back up their “global warming” (later “climate change”) propaganda campaign. Also look up “geo-engineering.” It is real, it is dangerous and it is aimed at the American and the world economies.