Haunting photos of the "black storm" that devastated Kansas in the 1930s

Kansas (USA) suffered heavy damage in the "Dust Bowl" black storm in the 1930s and it took the state many years to recover.

Photos posted by ATI partly show the devastation of the "black storm" Dust Bowl in the US state of Kansas in the 1930s. (Photo source: ATI)

Some "black storms" reduced visibility, leaving many people unable to even see their own footsteps.

Dust storms cause dust pneumonia, also known as brown plague - a respiratory disease with symptoms of cough, high fever, chest pain,... especially affecting infants, young children and the elderly.

Dust covers a farm in Kansas.

The streets of Topeka, Kansas, as a dust storm sweeps through.

Severe soil erosion occurred in many places in Kansas at that time.

Dust storm flooded into people's houses.

Inside a Wichita cannery that supported relief efforts during the Great Depression and the "black storm."

Kansas residents wear masks to protect themselves from dust pneumonia.

Terrifying image of a dust storm in Kansas many years ago.

A cornfield ravaged by drought and dust storms.

A dust storm sweeps through Morton, Kansas, in the 1930s.

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