I believe it was back in January or February. My little brother came in the house. He's told me you got to come look at this dirt

storm blowing in. I was like well we've had dirt storms before. Nothing big you

know just a little bit of sand and he went no you seriously need to come look.

And I walked out the door with my camera.

And lo and behold, there was an honest to God

dust cloud moving in.

You could see it. A lot of the old timers used to call them

rollers or boilers because you could see them boiling across the horizon and when it hit it seemed that it was

closer to sunset.

From no man's land in Oklahoma Panhandle, this is the Dust Bowl ballads on BBC World Service. I've had a steering wheel on my hand for the most in poverty.

30% chance of showers and thunderstorms low to 68.

I've had a steering wheel on my hand for the last hundred years I think.

I can drive pretty good. I can't walk but I can sure drive.

My name is Millard Fowler. I'm 102 years old. I was born the first day of May in 1913. And I remember when radio first showed up, I thought that was the darndest thing it ever happened.

We didn't have weather reports on the radio and didn't have much relation to this part of the world.

And they still don't, when we get a weather report now, it's probably 300 miles from where we are.

Boy City, Oklahoma, right in the middle of it.

I hope we never have another dust bowl, but sandy soil will blow if you leave it uncovered. And it blows down the road and drifts up and big high pile just

like like blowing snow. Right. You know you go other places and they're like where are you from and you're like oh no man's land and they're like no really I'm from no man's land and it's on the map actually that way.

The reason it's called no man land there wasn't anybody lived out here. It was just a piece of land, you know, that no one claimed.

Nobody had jurisdiction over it.

You know, you weren't in Texas, you weren't in Kansas.

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