The dust bowl
Most Deadly Extreme weather damage to crop farmers in the 20th century
The Dust bowl was the worst drought the twentieth Century had faced during the dark years of the 1930s, where the depression also occurred causing a massive drop in jobs around the world. These times in the 1930s were known as the "Dirty Thirties", as the world faced so many natural disasters, economic drops, etc. Nearly 3 MILLION people were forced to leave their farms on the Great Plains. During this more than half a MILLION people had migrated to other states, which were mostly towards the West. Of course when this drought is compared to the other droughts in the previous centuries, it isn't considered to be that massive, but a key point to keep in mind, is that those droughts had a lot more precipitation compared to The Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl had included massive wind erosions and horrible dust storms, this disaster did not only contain the dryness of a drought but also heavy winds, and massive dust/sand storms, the dust storm had reduced the visibility to less than a mile. Since this disaster occurred in the 1930s, the exact numbers are unknown, but throughout the evidence that was collected, the heavy wind pressures had blown away more soil than the Mississippi River carried out to the sea. Hundreds of thousands of people living in the Great Plains had died from "Dust Pneumonia", which occurs when the lungs get filled with dirt. These are just the highlights of the Dust Bowl, for more information please visit the link below.