April 4, 2008
Blasting Wind — Abandoned Lands
Filed under Colorado, Great Depression, weather
This abandoned farmstead stands in ruin from blasting winds which
have shifted topsoil from field to cover the house and improvement.
The old turning plow in foreground was left at the end of row in the field.
Date: 1935
Photographer: B. C. McLean
Location: Bacca County, Colorado
Watershed: unknown
(see digital image source)
Comments on "Blasting Wind — Abandoned Lands" »
teeni @ 3:59 pm
Wow - it’s like a flood - only not with water. It’s very eerie in the black and white also.
Mike Goad @ 4:43 pm
Interesting way of putting it. For many, the dust storms of the 30s were as devastating as any flood.