Towering wall of dust rolls through metro Phoenix, leaving thousands without power

[ananda]

10. My grandfather farmed in the panhandle during the depression.

He was ruined and had to drive the family to Hillsboro.

Since they were driving through dust, they had to protect
the baby (my uncle) with wet masks.

Life was really hard for them -- farming in Texas. When
my dad graduated from high school, he got a job with
the CCC to help support the family.

The New Deal literally saved their lives. My grandmother
said they thought Roosevelt was God because he kept
them from starving to death.

And yet, every last one of her direct descendants (except
me and my siblings because we were raised Irish Catholic
by a liberal Democrat mother) is a Magat today.

Go figure.