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OCR: Dust Bowl Victims About the Dust Bowl What happered? Bad harvests crippled the farming industry. forcing Midwestermers abandon their farms When? 1930s Where? Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma Texas and New Mexico Why did it happen? In the early 1930s severe droughts plagued the land Strong winds swept across the plains, blowing away the topsoil and causing huge dust storms that decimated crops, grasses and trees Impact: Over 4 million people left the Great Plains area in search f food and jabs Yictims Midwesterners causine