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Parts of west Texas were hit by dust storms with wind speeds reaching up to 130km/h (80mph) on Sunday. Footage from Amarillo, Texas shows the sky turning a brownish red as dust engulfed the town.

A dust storm tore through the southern plains, unlike anything most area farmers had ever seen. “We had 90 mile an hour winds here,” says Brad Heffington, a farmer in Littlefield, Texas.

When the drought and dust storms showed no signs of letting up, many people abandoned their land. Others would have stayed but were forced out when they lost their land in bank foreclosures.