The original Dust Bowl, for those who aren’t familiar, took place in the late 1930s after an economic collapse and demographic shifts made farming uneconomical in the central U.S.

Black Sunday: On April 14, 1935, Texas and Oklahoma faced the infamous Dust Bowl. Conditions exacerbated by record drought across the nation and high winds led to dust storms on unprecedented levels.

The last time there have been this many dust storms in El Paso in an entire year was 1936, during the Dust Bowl, which engulfed large swaths of Mid-America and Texas According to data compiled by ...