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the dustbowl is what happens when you plow a prairie and the sky bites back.
means A region where drought and poor farming practices strip the topsoil into choking dust storms, especially the U.S. southern plains of the 1930s.
from A compound of plain English "dust" and "bowl," the bowl image suggesting a shallow basin where dust gathers and swirls. It was popularized for the great droughts that scoured the American plains in the 1930s, when over-plowed grassland turned to powder and storms of soil — the "black blizzards" — rolled across Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The name stuck so hard that "Dust Bowl" became shorthand for that whole catastrophe.
- black sunday
- 1935 storm carried 300,000 tons of topsoil
- dust pneumonia
- breathing the air filled lungs with dirt
- reach
- plains soil dusted ships in the Atlantic
- the exodus
- 2.5 million people fled the plains
- root cause
- native grasses ripped out for wheat
dust bowl — american great plains drought and erosion, 1930-1939, affecting texas, oklahoma, kansas, colorado, new mexico
black sunday — april 14, 1935 dust storm that blackened skies across oklahoma and texas at noon