On those days when the wind stops blowing across the face of the southern plains, the land falls into a silence that scares people in the way that a big house can haunt after the lights go out and no one else is there.
It scares people because the land is too much, too empty, claustrophobic in its immensity. It scares people because this land gives nothing back to a stranger. The Great Plains, where the land and the weather are probably the most violent on earth, demand only one thing–humility.
-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time
A storm moves in on the southern plains
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