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dustbowl rule (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 11 months ago by sunnie@sopuli.xyz to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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[-] dill@lemmy.one 74 points 11 months ago

For anyone wondering, this is 100% true and not exaggerated. It was so bad you run the blender without plugging it in.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 65 points 11 months ago

Also it happened 120% of the time. People thinking about a hug would get knocked down. People would park their Tesla with empty batteries and get it fully charged if children were running around.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 30 points 11 months ago

Damn the 1930s were wild

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 51 points 11 months ago

Excerpt from the History channel:

So much static electricity built up between the ground and airborne dust that blue flames leaped from barbed wire fences and well-wishers shaking hands could generate a spark so powerful it could knock them to the ground. Since static electricity could short out engines and car radios, motorists driving through dust storms dragged chains from behind their automobiles to ground their cars.

[-] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 11 months ago

OP over here leaving out the part where cities had rabbit clubbing parties! Wtf lol

If the dust storms that turned daylight to darkness weren’t apocalyptic enough, seemingly biblical plagues of jackrabbits and grasshoppers descended on the Plains and destroyed whatever meager crops could grow. To combat the hundreds of thousands of jackrabbits that overran the Dust Bowl states in 1935, some towns staged “rabbit drives” in which townsmen corralled the jackrabbits in pens and smashed them to death with clubs and baseball bats.

[-] tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de 17 points 11 months ago
[-] kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 11 months ago

A fart knocking your ass cheeks together was also powerful enough to knock out everyone in the room with the frequency

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago

Crit farts 🤯

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 11 months ago

On the positive side, bugs zapped themselves!

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