more on the grapes of wrath

I came across this amazing photo of a dust storm hitting a town in Texas during the Dust Bowl, the cataclysmic climate event which caused a huge migration of people out of farming areas of the U.S. and Canada in the 1930s:

Poor farming practices, drought and wind combined to strip the land of its topsoil and blanket everything in endless dust for several years.

(photo from Wikimedia Commons).