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The severe weather risk stretches more than 1,200 miles in total, with intense #storms predicted to reach as far as East #Texas to the Mid-#Atlantic through the weekend. After this #storm system winds down, another is expected to pick up to the west, with strong #tornadoes in the forecast by Sunday for parts of the #GreatPlains.
#ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #FEMA #NOAA #NWS #EarlyWarningSystems #DisasterRelief #Trump #DOGE #PublicDisservice
Passend zur so schön sonnigen … #Dürre in 
gibt es in der @NDR #Mediathek gerade
„Früchte des Zorns”
von John #Steinbeck
als #Hörspiel-Serie ( bis 15.11.2025)
(‚Grapes of Wrath‘ im Original)
https://www.ndr.de/fruechtedeszorns
„Amerika in den dreißiger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts. In Oklahoma ist seit Jahren kein Regen mehr gefallen. Aus den #GreatPlains ist eine ‚#DustBowl‘ geworden.”
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On north-facing slopes on the Rolling Plains eco region of the North American Great Plains, there grows a wildflower which has remained overlooked...until I stumbled across it. Thus began my journey of becoming a botanist so I can describe it as a new species...a work still in progress.
#WildFlower #GreatPlains #nature #BioDiversity
#Weather #Thunderstorm #StormChaser #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Photographer #GreatPlains #Kansas
Pancake ice drifting down the Missouri River. If you listen closely, you can hear its soft whisper.
#GreatPlains #PancakeIce
Deaf Smith County, Texas. "It is reliably estimated that not less than 40,000 families have moved away from the Great Plains drought area since 1930." From the report of the Great Plains Committee, 1936
#SmithCounty #Texas #GreatPlains #DorotheaLange #DeafSmithCounty #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
![The image shows a black and white landscape featuring an open, flat expanse of grassland. In the center distance stands a tall windmill with blades that are not currently turning, indicating no breeze or little airflow at the time this photo was taken. A few scattered buildings can be seen in the background; notably there appears to be one larger structure resembling a farmhouse and possibly an outbuilding nearby. This area likely represents agricultural land during times when water extraction would have been essential for farming.
The foreground is mostly barren, with only small patches of grass visible amidst what seems like dry earth or perhaps early stages of crop growth before irrigation has commenced. The overall impression conveyed by the image may be one of rural hardship and isolation often associated with farmland communities in drought-prone regions during periods of agricultural distress such as those documented by Dorothea Lange.
The caption indicates that this photograph is linked to Deaf Smith County, Texas. It also references a historical context where significant population movements occurred due to adverse weather conditions affecting the Great Plains region from 1930 onwards. The mention of at least 40,000 families leaving such areas highlights human migration and adaptation in response to climate-driven challenges faced by rural communities during this period.
This image captures both the desolatio [...]](https://mastodon.ozioso.online/system/media_attachments/files/113/805/566/269/931/992/original/3902a6804489073a.jpeg "The image shows a black and white landscape featuring an open, flat expanse of grassland. In the center distance stands a tall windmill with blades that are not currently turning, indicating no breeze or little airflow at the time this photo was taken. A few scattered buildings can be seen in the background; notably there appears to be one larger structure resembling a farmhouse and possibly an outbuilding nearby. This area likely represents agricultural land during times when water extraction would have been essential for farming.
The foreground is mostly barren, with only small patches of grass visible amidst what seems like dry earth or perhaps early stages of crop growth before irrigation has commenced. The overall impression conveyed by the image may be one of rural hardship and isolation often associated with farmland communities in drought-prone regions during periods of agricultural distress such as those documented by Dorothea Lange.
The caption indicates that this photograph is linked to Deaf Smith County, Texas. It also references a historical context where significant population movements occurred due to adverse weather conditions affecting the Great Plains region from 1930 onwards. The mention of at least 40,000 families leaving such areas highlights human migration and adaptation in response to climate-driven challenges faced by rural communities during this period.
This image captures both the desolatio [...]")
Drought-abandoned house on the edge of the Great Plains near Hollis, Oklahoma
#theGreatPlains #Hollis #Oklahoma #GreatPlains #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
This is pretty neat. Bunch of people trying to rewild the grassy plains of the USA
Abandoned Barber Shop
A small, abandoned barbershop with its "OPEN" sign visible in the door sits beside a payphone on a quiet street. The building has a cracked exterior, and the window displays barber poles.
Fall colors: Four months of drought left many leaves brown and wilted. But the Rough-leaved Dogwood (Cornus drummondii) is putting up an effort.
#NativePlants #GreatPlains #Berries
Great Plains homesteads, showing sheep barn. Near Cland, New Mexico
TY @WesternWatershedsProject for sharing this! I had the honor of interviewing #ChiefArvolLookingHorse back in the 1990s after Miracle, the first White Buffalo Calf, was born. We are indeed at the crossroads!
#NativeAmericans see omen in Yellowstone's rare white bison
The white bison calf
by Max Matza and Madeline Halpert
BBC News
13 June 2024
"An incredibly rare white bison calf has been photographed in #YellowstoneNationalPark, exciting Native American tribes who view it as a religious sign heralding #MajorChange.
"It was spotted in the Lamar Valley area, and is the first white bison to be born in the last #WildHerd in the US, according to modern records.
"Other recent white bison births have happened in captivity and from parents that contained cow DNA. Tribes consider a wild birth more religiously significant.
"Montana photographer Erin Braaten took photos of the young buffalo in the Lamar Valley on 4 June while visiting the park with three of her eight children.
"Stuck in traffic caused by a slow-moving herd, she noticed the young calf across a river, nearly 100 metres (330ft) away, and initially mistook it for a coyote because of its sandy light colour.
"'There were so many different thoughts and emotions,' Braaten told the BBC.
"'It was so amazing. I thought I'd have a better chance of capturing Bigfoot than a white bison calf.'
"The birth of a white buffalo is a sacred event for many Native tribes of the #GreatPlains, including the #Lakota people, who believe that it relates to a time around 2,000 years ago when food was scarce and the bison were rarely seen.
"The Lakota legend tells of a beautiful woman who appeared and delivered the gifts of a #SacredPipeAndBundle to the people.
"The woman told them she would return to restore harmony in a troubled world, and then rolled on the ground four times, changing colour each time before becoming a white buffalo calf.
"Her departure led the bison to return, and white buffalos are now seen as a sign that prayers are being heard and that change is coming.
"The white buffalo woman is considered the central prophet in the theology of many tribes including the #Sioux, #Cherokee, #Comanche and #Navajo.
"Her story is often likened to that of Jesus in Christianity.
"Simon Moya-Smith, an #OglalaLakota writer who was also raised on the white buffalo woman's story, told the BBC that tradition says the arrival of a white calf is seen as both a 'blessing and a warning'."
Last night, the heavy storms following a fortunately short-lived heatwave (heat index of 45C/113F) brought the biggest hail I've ever seen. The tape measure shows inches (1in=2.5cm). I'm just glad that the forecast of baseball-sized hail (almost 3in/7.5cm across) did not come to pass!
Freak weather events like this could of course always happen, but lately we seem to be tumbling from record to record and extreme to extreme: the worst multi-year drought since at least the dustbowl, the wettest May in 140 years (>11in/280mm of rain), record high and low temperatures, the worst tornadoes since the 70s... All just this year!
