Black Blizzard

From a historical perspective, I've always wondered what the drought refugees of the 1930's felt like when the black blizzards would descend upon the Panhandle, choke out the sun and blow sand so hard, that it hurts to stand outside.

Now I know because yesterday we had one of those days.

In this video you'll see a snippet of time roughly from 4pm to 6pm and was all taken within eight miles of my house.

The wind sustained from 40 to 50 miles per hour and dirt blew horizontally straight from the west.  The storm assaulted the all of the Panhandle down to Ozona for six or seven hours yesterday.

While Childress County has a small wildfire, we fared much better than counties to the northwest and southwest.  I am hearing that many houses burned as well as, unfortunately, some loss of life.