Dust Bowl, California edition

Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared California to be a drought-ridden hell hole. Not his exact words, but close, when he declared a state emergency because it hasn’t rained enough in the state for three years.

This paragraph from Reuters in particular caught my eye. “As many as 95,000 agricultural jobs will be lost, communities will be

devastated and some growers in the most economically productive farm

state simply are not able to plant, state officials said, calling the

current drought the most expensive ever.”

That language seems awfully familiar to what I imagine the Dust Bowl to be like.