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What was most unusual about the western storms that that ravaged the plains during the Great Depression?

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Dust Bowl. Severe droughts ravaged the Great Plains in the early 1930s, stirring up dust storms and eroding land that had been improperly plowed and over-farmed in the previous decades. At the same time, Depression-era prices fell drastically for crops that had been in high demand during World War I.

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