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What Is Black Blizzard
Black Blizzard is a dry tidal wave that would be 7,000 feet high and destroy everything. You and your parents would take wet towels are cram them into the bottoms of the doors and the bottoms of the windows to keep dust out. Your parents would also give you a wet towel to put over your face so you wouldn’t inhale the dust. Then you would sit in the middle of the room huddled with your family all together. Oklahoma,Texas,Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado were the worst Natural disaster spots in American History for dry tidal waves. Tidal waves were so bad there due to the location and timing. With the location being where it is they were normal for those states to deal with. Tidal waves ruined the economy for the area. After the storm, families
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