Dust Bowl


 From 1932-1938 in the Great Plains reigon covering Texas,Oklahoma,Kansas,Colarado a series of duststorms
hit . Acording to Websters Student dictionary a duststorm is dust laden wirlwind moving across a dry region .This series of duststrorms is called the Dust Bowl .The hardest hit area was 50 million acres in the center of the Great Plains.
      In November 1933 the first major storm  hit. This huge mass of dust covered  Motana down as far as the Mississipi Valley and over to the Great Lakes.
      In May 1934 an even larger storm came blowing extreme  winds for 36 hours. Over 1,500 miles as far as the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes ,Canada down to southern  Oklahoma .Millions of tons of dust was blown east over half the country. The dust went from Pitsburgh even out to the mid Atlantic Ocean and dropping dust every where in beetween including Chicago,Wasington,and New York.
     

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