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1900-1930's Black Blizzard
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In 1930 there was lots of bad dust storms in the south west, creating one of the worst natural disasters in history. These storms ruined land, buried roads, ruined car engines, gave people dust pneumonia, and sometimes killed people. People who could get out of the south west packet up and moved. Some more less unfortunate families couldn’t move and had to stay.
In 1900-1930 families started buying land and moving to the plains. They would farm cash crops on the land but it was very hard work. The country was already in a depression and also the stock market crash. Their plants failed 5 years in a row. With no income they couldn’t pay mortgages.
After no rain the dirt was very dry, and the native plants which used to hold
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