Black Blizzard is about dust storms that were ravaging areas of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado. The Dust storms were extremely loud, over 7,000 feet tall they turned the sky black and they killed lots of animals.
The areas mentioned were hit by hundreds of the storms. The storms destroyed land and crops, forcing people to move. Together these storms made one of the worst natural disasters. From 1900-1930 it was popular to buy plots of land and farm there. Crops were already hard to grow, but it got worse when there was a drought in 1931 that lasted until 1935. For five years farmers had no luck with crops causing them to have little to no income. Farmers faced many troubles, but none as big as the dust storms. The storms
The areas mentioned were hit by hundreds of the storms. The storms destroyed land and crops, forcing people to move. Together these storms made one of the worst natural disasters. From 1900-1930 it was popular to buy plots of land and farm there. Crops were already hard to grow, but it got worse when there was a drought in 1931 that lasted until 1935. For five years farmers had no luck with crops causing them to have little to no income. Farmers faced many troubles, but none as big as the dust storms. The storms