Many suffered coughing spasms, asthma, shortness of breath, bronchitis, influenza. The dust that surrounded them was deadly. You admire the people’s strength, their hard work, their watching out for one another. Through countless interviews and even diaries, Egan humanizes the story. Some of the people he interviewed were teenagers at the time. capitol, getting the attention of Congress and the American people to the catastrophe occurring on the plains.Įgan focuses on particular families, many who stayed and managed to survive. The prairie dirt enshrouded the State of Liberty and dusted ships that were 300 miles from shore. It carried dust to Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, and New York City. That storm was two miles high and traveled 2,000 miles. The canal took seven years to dig the storm lasted a single afternoon. Vehicles and machinery buried in dust in South Dakota.Įgan continues: The storm carried twice as much dirt as was dug out of the earth to create the panama canal.
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