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The article Black Blizzard from Scholastic Professional Books tells about how the Black Blizzard happened. People were frightened because the dirt would go in their mouths and they could die from inhaling the dirt.
In the 1930’s hundreds of these storms ruined the middle of the United States, such as Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado.In 1931 a terrible drought the hit the middle of the nation and the farmers could not pay for the farms and to head to the west.The drought was so bad that the topsoil became loose and dry it blew away. With the soil in the air the winds picked up and buried roads. Some older people and children were suffocated and died thousands died slowly, More than 1 million people migrated west.
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