Compounding the scarcity of water was a series of deadly dust storms. This unprecedented ... the United States was in the grip of the Great Depression. But while a capricious Mother Nature is ...

On Jan. 8, 1973, 52 years ago today, Atlanta's worst ice storm since the Great Depression wrapped up, but left a mess behind. After kicking off with freezing rain and sleet the previous morning, over ...

In 1930, with the Great Depression underway ... the winds began picking up dust from the open fields, they grew into dust storms of biblical proportions. Each year the storms grew more ferocious ...

During the 1930s, drought and economic depression forced prairie farmers ... In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies.

Despite being affected by the Dust Bowl in 1930, which caused severe droughts, heat spells and dust storms across the ... were in the early days of the Great Depression. 4. Dec. 23, 1989 ...

Roosevelt, was desperately trying to recover from the shock of the Great Depression ... which worked to combat erosion caused by dust storms by reforming farming methods.

“The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great ...

The weather has been something terrible. The sand and dust is drifted up in drifts like snowdrifts. In a lot of places, the fences are all drifted under. We have had sand blizzards for the last ...