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I Lived Through the Great '77 Dust Storm
I was working as a long distance telephone operator for Pacific Bell Telephone Co. When I awoke that morning I immediately noticed the eerily orange glow to the light, or lack thereof, coming into my bedroom through the window. ...
Posted by kathilongrenick - Thu Sep 24, 2009 09:48:56 PDT
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The 1977 Dust Storm
I was a freshman at Highland High School. I remember going to school. Dust storms were not unheard of so it didn't seem like anything more than a slightly nastier day than usual. By the time my sister (a senior) got to HHS the power was...
Posted by someonespadre - Mon Dec 15, 2008 18:36:11 PST
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December 20, 1977
Thirty years ago I was a young woman living in north Oildale with my husband and five year old daughter. We rented a small, solid house that was built at the close of WWII. Our front door was made of  wood but it was so short that...
Posted by AudreyB - Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:51:07 PST
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Dust Storm
On Dec. 20, 1977 I worked for the US Army Center on Chester Ave. We loaned our 6 wheel drive 2 1/2 ton trucks to the National Guard. They used them to patrol south HWY 99. They rescued people, who were stranded, and brought them to...
Posted by SuperChiefK - Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:12:58 PST
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I Was a Teenage Paperboy
For those of you old enough, you may remember that the Californian was an afternoon paper back when the dust storm happened.  I was an eighth grader in Shafter, and had a paper route in my neighborhood.  With a dark orange sky...
Posted by Moonaticman - Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:07:12 PST
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Tumbleweed Snowman, Dust Storm of 1977
I remember the day of the dust storm. We lived on Pryor Street off of Olive Drive so we were not as at risk as people in the more open spaces. Two or three days before the storm, my five-year-old grandson Ryan Walter and I had driven...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Dec 17, 2007 16:17:10 PST
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1977 Dust Storm: Indelible in my memory
At the time, I was the weathercaster for KERO-TV Channel 23, which was then the NBC affiliate.  I was just hired about ten weeks before for my first television weathercasting job by then General Manager Ray Watson, and News Director...
Posted by wxokie - Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:51:15 PST
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Bussing through the storm
My bus route followed Highway 58 from Buttonwillow to Enos Lane and north on Enos Lane to Beech Street into Shafter. Frito Lay had leveled the area where their plant sits now. It must have been at least a mile or more long on the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:53:02 PST
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Dust Storm Baby
The Dust Storm of 1977 always brings back special memories for me and I can remember it like it was yesterday. You see I was 9 months pregnant and due at any time. At approximately 3 p.m. on Sunday afternoon (the day before the dust...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:52:58 PST
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'Only fools' would travel in this weather
December 20, 1977, I was working in Wasco, California for an attorney, awaiting to be sworn in to the California Bar the following day in Los Angeles. When the dust store hit and did not subside I knew I would have problems making it...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:52:15 PST
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Dust storm memory
The dust storm of December 20 1977 started very early. That morning on my way from Tehachapi to Foothill High School where I taught, the dust clouds and winds were already treacherous. School didn’t last long that day. We sent the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Dec 10, 2007 14:09:26 PST
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Timber! Dust storm uprooted our tree
During the dust storm of 1977, a huge pine tree that was uprooted and fell across our steel beams of our carport and we were left with a branch hanging into our ktichen. Since we had invited 40 family and friends for dinner, I just...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Wed Dec 5, 2007 11:53:30 PST
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Windstorm of December 20, 1977
The Windstorm of 12-20-77. “Oh, I remember it well!” I was a young, twenty-four year old, married mother of two small children. My husband, who worked for PG&E, as a meter reader, had already left for work. I was...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Wed Dec 5, 2007 10:18:56 PST
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Two Palm Trees and a Dust Storm
I was 10 years old attending Seibert Elementary School on that dusty, dry day in December 1977. My class was scheduled to put on a Christmas show. I remember my parents discussing if I should stay home, but I couldn’t miss the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Thu Nov 29, 2007 17:35:30 PST
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Dust Storm
Bakersfield's Wind Storm I was a freshman at South High School in 1977. My Mother on seeing the dark sky, all the dust and hearing the wind decided to keep my brother Bob and me home from school that day. Power was out at our...
Posted by markspencer - Thu Nov 29, 2007 17:33:43 PST
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dust storm of '77
THE KERN COUNTY DUST STORM OF DECEMBER 20, 1977 BY LORETTA PATTERSON OF BAKERSFIELD, CA I woke up that morning with a loud roaring of wind blowing around the house. Two of my sons were students at South High and when I saw all the...
Posted by LorettaPatterson - Thu Nov 29, 2007 17:27:12 PST
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Birthday Storm
We well remember the Dec. 20, 1977, dust storm. It was my daughter’s 16th birthday so we had special plans to celebrate — then the 100 mph winds “blew” in. No power, of course, but fortunately in my...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Wed Nov 28, 2007 09:21:47 PST
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Golf in the face of a gale
The article by Leonel Martinez about the great wind and dust storm of 1977, with its 100+ MPH winds and 5-foot visibility brought back memories. Early that same morning, my friend Jim Hartman and I met at Kern City for our weekly round...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Nov 26, 2007 16:35:16 PST
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Dust storm left me with a special class of one
I was teaching a class at Lakeside School. I had battled my way from Bakersfield that morning, only to find that Lakeside classes were canceled and the Kern County special ed classes probably would be. I couldn’t find out because...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Nov 26, 2007 16:35:05 PST
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Valley Turbulence
The day began like any other day. The alarm went off, I got up and started my daily routine: make breakfast, wake up the boys and get ready for school and work. I dropped my boys off at South High School and went on to my job as a...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Nov 26, 2007 16:34:48 PST
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The dust storm Christmas tree
This photo is of the huge pine tree that was uprooted and fell across our steel beams of our carport and we were left with a branch hanging into our ktichen. Since we had invited 40 family and friends for dinner, I just decorated the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Nov 26, 2007 16:33:50 PST
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The big, red cloud
Being a Bakersfield native I remember dust storms, but nothing like that day. I got up before dawn that morning to go duck hunting with my good friend Dr. Stephen Newbrough. The wind was just howling as we left town and headed for the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Nov 26, 2007 16:33:37 PST
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Dust Storm Memories
I was 9 years old when the dust storm hit.  School was called off, and the kids sent home early.  I spent the first hour peeling tumble weeds off our house and sending them down the street, laughing as they piled up in Tiffany...
Posted by swerd1 - Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:10:29 PST
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Arvin’s Great Disaster
A few days after the 1977 ‘Dust Storm’ I wrote this story of how our family survived that horrible day and the events that happened to us. We lived in Lamont and my husband and I worked in Arvin, he at the Arvin School...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Wed Nov 21, 2007 09:29:11 PST
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1977 dust storm was unforgettable
Remember the dust storm of December 1977? I don’t believe that anyone who lived through that could ever forget it. I was living in Taft then and the storm began on December 17th. Our neighbors and friends commented that we were in...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Wed Nov 21, 2007 09:21:51 PST
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Dec. 1977 Bakersfield Dust Storm
The power was off at our house, in the Hillcrest area, for four days. Our 6 ft. wooden fence, on one side of the property, blew down and lay flat on the ground. A neighbor’s asphalt shingle roof blew off piece by piece in long...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Wed Nov 21, 2007 09:15:26 PST
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Dust Blizzard
No photos to share but vivid memories as if  December 20,1977 was yesterday. The density of blowing dirt and dust turned morning to dusk and our street lights came on at 9AM. Calls came from children’s schools telling...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Nov 19, 2007 16:53:19 PST
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Driving in the dust storm — Maybe not such a good idea
I'll never forget  it. I was 22.  A few of my friends were at my apartment because  Bakersfield was virtually shut down and we were getting extremely bored. We  had the bright idea of going for a drive to see all the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Thu Nov 15, 2007 16:53:40 PST
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Dust Storm Memory as a 5 year old.
I was five years old when the storm hit Bakersfield.  We lived on the east side of town off of College and Oswell. I remember there was a sense of something not right from my dad.  He took me, mom , and my sister to my...
Posted by marcus29fan - Thu Nov 15, 2007 14:21:53 PST
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That December Day
I remember the day so clearly and I was just 9 years old.  My mom had called my sister and I to make sure that we were getting ready for school.  Just as we were about to walk out of the house to walk our 2 blocks to school she...
Posted by tfromcal - Thu Nov 15, 2007 14:08:49 PST
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Dust Storm Memories Still Vivid 30 Years Later
During the dust storm of 1977 I was 7 years old and in 2nd grade—the same age my oldest daughter is now. I remember it was the week before Christmas break and we had all brought our gifts to school for the gift exchange but hadn't...
Posted by twogirlsmama - Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:56:32 PST
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A December to Remember
Thursday, March 31, 2005 The weather was exceptionally beautiful today. The wind and the rain have cleared the normally grayish-brown air out of the valley and there was clear view of all three mountain ranges surrounding the city....
Posted by baketown - Thu Nov 8, 2007 09:09:52 PST
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