The Dust Bowl was a name given to a period of very destructive dust storms that occurred in the United States during the 1930s.
Historians today consider The Dust Bowl to be one of the worst weather of events in American history.
The Dust Bowl mostly affected the states of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico.
Dust storms continue to occur in these dry regions, but not to the devastating degree of the 1930s.
The dust storms during The Dust Bowl caused irreparable damage to farms and the environment for a period of several years.
When early settlers moved into this area, they removed the natural prairie grasses in order to plant crops and graze their cattle.
They did not realize that the grasses kept the soil in place.
There was also a severe drought that affects the region.
The worst dust storm happened on April 14, 1935, a day called Black Sunday.
The Dust Bowl era finally came to end in 1939 when the rains arrived.
Dust storms will continue to affect the region, but hopefully they will not be as destructive as the storms of the 1930s.
March 2016
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