Hi Catie. Thanks for your email.

You must be doing a school assignment about weather....

 

Grandad likes fall best because it's not as hot and dry as summer. Usually

we get our best rains in the fall and that makes the wheat pastures grow.

 

One of the major weather events that has happened here is when Grandad was

a tiny baby -- in 1935 and 1936. The dust storms in the depths of the dust

bowl days. I've heard your great-grandmother, Ogetha Langford, talk about

them. She said you could see a great dark cloud in the west, northwest. And

it came closer and closer until it was so dark with dirt in the air you

couldn't see -- just like night.

 

And your grandad Leon was a baby and she would wet towels and drape over

his crip to keep the dirt from falling into the crib.

 

The drought of the 1930's was extreme and the farmers didn't have the right

implements to stop the land from blowing. Finally after several years the

weather patterns changed and in 1941 they had the most rain ever recorded

here.

 

After the dust bowl days the government started helping the farmers plant

rows of trees for wind breaks and encouraging farmers to leave stubble on

the land after harvesting crops so the land wouldn't start blowing during

the dry years.

 

Hope this is enough answers to your questions.

muchlove suzy

>Hey Grandad and Suzy,this is Catie.  I want to ask you a couple of

>questions.  What is your favorite season?,What kind of weather is in that

>season?, and what is one major weather event that has happened where you live?

>                 Love you,

>                  Catie