After the 1930s Dust Bowl, what did they do with all of that dust? Did it gradually just become dirt again, once the drought stopped?

Eventually it just settled down somewhere and became mixed in to the soil of that place.

Thanks SISL

It became home for worms.

Great first question.

They dumped it all in Kansas.

It did indeed become dirt again as you say. My father grew up in Southeastern Colorado, a part of the dust bowl. He tells stories of dust storms and other horrors of the Depression.

And then he gives thanks that he never lived in Kansas. Amen.

I think Kansas was blown away by the dust bowl….horror stories!

Val123, I think the idea was that most of western Kansas blew away, meaning “not Kansas”! :)
Always the wisenheimer, eh, Jake?

@Amorphous_Blob : Always.

@Amorphous_Blob Ah. So that’s what happened to Western Kansas! It’s a totally miserable part of Kansas, you know?

Never been there. I’ve only been as far west as Manhattan once, and Topeka twice. I think of anything that’s more than 10 miles from Kansas City as “the Kansas panhandle”.

@Amorphous_Blob Um.. Kansas doesn’t HAVE a panhandle! Oklahoma does because…part of the state looks like the handle of a pan. Same with Texas. It has a handle-looking part. Kansas is square….I went to school in Manhattan. Majored in Pool and Foosball at Brother’s Tavern in Aggieville. :)

Yeah, hence the humor! A little humor, anyway.