It was way worse than that. Mile long dust winds piled through the north. “When the dust clouds appeared from the north, they rolled in like giant waves of black fog, thousands of feet high and miles across” (Franz). Winds 60 miles per hour combined with the dirt and erosion around it and created a massive storm making a blizzard of dusty smoke. The midwest had already been hit by these hardcore storms, but April 14, 1935, was the worst day of all. “More and more dust storms had been blowing up in the years leading up to that day. In 1932, 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains. In 1933, there were 38 storms. By 1934, it was estimated that 100 million acres of farmland had lost all or most of the topsoil to the winds. By April 1935, there had been weeks of dust storms, but the cloud that appeared on the horizon that Sunday was the worst. Winds were clocked at 60 mph” (Overmiller). And that Sunday was the final load but it was the biggest of thm all completely wiping out everything, leaving absolutely nothing behind. And at that point the effect had become a completely new
It was way worse than that. Mile long dust winds piled through the north. “When the dust clouds appeared from the north, they rolled in like giant waves of black fog, thousands of feet high and miles across” (Franz). Winds 60 miles per hour combined with the dirt and erosion around it and created a massive storm making a blizzard of dusty smoke. The midwest had already been hit by these hardcore storms, but April 14, 1935, was the worst day of all. “More and more dust storms had been blowing up in the years leading up to that day. In 1932, 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains. In 1933, there were 38 storms. By 1934, it was estimated that 100 million acres of farmland had lost all or most of the topsoil to the winds. By April 1935, there had been weeks of dust storms, but the cloud that appeared on the horizon that Sunday was the worst. Winds were clocked at 60 mph” (Overmiller). And that Sunday was the final load but it was the biggest of thm all completely wiping out everything, leaving absolutely nothing behind. And at that point the effect had become a completely new