Black+Sunday


 * By Jamilah grade 5**

On April 14, 1935, everything was fine until the mother of all dirt storms, aka “Black Sunday” came. The day was calm and sunny. All of a sudden people spotted a huge black cloud in the sky traveling at 60 miles per hour. This storm covered Eastern Colorado, Western Kansas and the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. The storm made it look like midnight, and many believed that it was the end of the world. The dust clouds were so high and thick, and moved so quickly that it overtook and suffocated birds fleeing south from the storm. It was this storm that led to the phrase “Dust Bowl”.