Originally Posted By: Hankster
I just finished a book "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan (lives in Seattle) about the Dust Bowl. If you want to read about how we raped the Great Plains and caused the worst ecological disaster in American history, that book is great.

Anyway, in that book it was said the hottest period on record in this country was in the mid-'30s.

Here's that book if you're interested.

http://www.amazon.com/Worst-Hard-Time-Su...by+timothy+egan



Read that about a year ago. Those were some hardy folks that outlasted the dust.
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