Could the Dust Bowl of the 30s happen again?
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April the fourteenth, the day Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1865, the day the Titanic struck an iceberg in 1912, and the day in 1935 when the noontime sun was blotted out by a towering cloud of dust that blasted and blanketed the great plains of the United States. We looked in the north and thought it was the blue northern coming such a huge black cloud just looked like smoke out of a train stack or something. It was Black Sunday, a dust storm of seemingly biblical proportions. It was described by some as a land tsunami or a dust blizzard, the most infamous episode of the 1930s dust bowl that changed life in the breadbaskets of the U.S.
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