For anyone wondering, this is 100% true and not exaggerated. It was so bad you run the blender without plugging it in.
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.
Damn the 1930s were wild
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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.
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.
Mad Max
A fart knocking your ass cheeks together was also powerful enough to knock out everyone in the room with the frequency
Crit farts 🤯
On the positive side, bugs zapped themselves!
