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In the article “Black Blizzard” from Scholastic scope It describes that in Oklahoma they had a lot of dust storms, and major droughts but there was one in particular that is very famous and was devastating It was called the “dust bowl of 1931”. These dust storms were like dry tidal waves and they were as tall as mountains. The storms were mostly in the south western areas and they also made people move far west away from the storms. The drought that happened that was called the dust bowl made people not be able to grow crops because they all dried up and blew away. The dust storms caused illnesses and damages and that the farmers had to deal with so that is when the people decided to move west. Migrants were having trouble finding jobs and

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