-03.21.09- Drought and unsustainable farming methods left 83 percent of Morton County, home to Elkhart, in extreme southwestern Kansas, barren, and fierce prairie winds blew much of the land away. No other county in the six Dust Bowl states had a greater portion of its land devastated. Seventy-five years later, the land is blowing again. The past two years have been among the driest since the Dust Bowl days. Five inches of rain fell in October, the wettest month here since June 2004. There has been 0.65 inches of moisture since. Leer más