Black Sunday Dust Storm……
April 14, 1935…….
One of the worst dust storms ever in the U.S. It was the most severe in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms in the 1930s that greatly damaged the agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies. It was brought on by severe drought and failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent soil erosion. Huge clouds of dust, called black blizzards, traveled cross country, often reducing visibility to 3 feet (1 meter) or less. Unable to grow crops due to the dust clouds, tens of thousands of families had to abandon their farms. Woody Guthrie‘s song Great Dust Storm and the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl (2012) describe the events of Black Sunday.