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In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains ...

Dalhart, Texas, stands as a beacon of history from the Dust Bowl era, offering visitors a unique glimpse into the past. This town, once overwhelmed by dust storms that turned day into night, holds ...

Written by J.G. Jones and Phil Bram along with art by Jones, Dust to Dust #1 introduces us to Sheriff Meadows, the lawman for the town of New Hope in Cimarron Count, Oklahoma in 1935. The town and ...

New dust storm warning has been issued until 8 PM CDT. Use caution if traveling on area interstates in the warned area!'” Reports of blowing dust at Chicago Midway Airport on May 16th, 2025.

A large dust storm swept through the Chicago area Friday, coming on the heels of a night of severe thunderstorms Thursday that left over 100,000 people without power.

A "full-fledged" dust storm, Gill added, is one in which visibility falls to just half-a-mile. This latest storm is the 10th such event this year—far above the 1.8 storm annual average.

Sunday's storm is one of many that has impacted the state, highlighting the problem of "dust season." Jake Dreyfous, the managing director of the environmental group Grow the Flow, also documented ...

A May dust storm enveloped Chicago. For a day, we better ... at Midway Airport and made freeway travel even more difficult than usual thanks to the sensation of driving into a great wall of dust.

The dust storm on Friday formed near Bloomington, Ill., at about 4:30 p.m. local time when thunderstorms in central Illinois generated a push of whipping and howling winds with speeds up to 70 ...

The Great Depression in North Dakota was a time of contradiction, a time of hunger marches and riots. And it was American laborers that in part dragged the nation from an abyss.

The big dust storms were fine particles of soil. Others were sand, ... And the mother had tea towels that were made out of flour sacks, because we were also in the Great Depression, ...