<P> Spearman and Hansford County have been literaly (sic) in a cloud of dust for the past week . Ever since Friday of last week, there hasn't been a day pass but what the county was beseieged (sic) with a blast of wind and dirt . On rare occasions when the wind did subside for a period of hours, the air has been so filled with dust that the town appeared to be overhung by a fog cloud . Because of this long seige of dust and every building being filled with it, the air has become stifling to breathe and many people have developed sore throats and dust colds as a result ." </P> <P> Much of the farmland was eroded in the aftermath of the Dust Bowl . In 1941, a Kansas agricultural experiment station released a bulletin that suggested reestablishing native grasses by the "hay method". Developed in 1937 to speed up the process and increase returns from pasture, the "hay method" was originally supposed to occur in Kansas naturally over 25--40 years . After much data analysis, the causal mechanism for the droughts can be linked to ocean temperature anomalies . Specifically, Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures appear to have had an indirect effect on the general atmospheric circulation, while Pacific sea surface temperatures seem to have had the most direct influence . </P> <P> This catastrophe intensified the economic impact of the Great Depression in the region . </P> <P> In 1935, many families were forced to leave their farms and travel to other areas seeking work because of the drought (which at that time had already lasted four years). The abandonment of homesteads and financial ruin resulting from catastrophic topsoil loss led to widespread hunger and poverty . Dust Bowl conditions fomented an exodus of the displaced from Texas, Oklahoma, and the surrounding Great Plains to adjacent regions . More than 500,000 Americans were left homeless . Over 350 houses had to be torn down after one storm alone . The severe drought and dust storms had left many homeless; others had their mortgages foreclosed by banks, or felt they had no choice but to abandon their farms in search of work . Many Americans migrated west looking for work . Parents packed up "jalopies" with their families and a few personal belongings, and headed west in search of work . Some residents of the Plains, especially in Kansas and Oklahoma, fell ill and died of dust pneumonia or malnutrition . </P>

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