DEVELOPING: "Multiple" people are dead after a dust storm caused dozens of vehicles to crash on an Illinois interstate, authorities say. More than 30 people were transported to the hospital, according to state police.

LATEST: Illinois State Police confirm at least six people killed after dust storm causes major crash on Interstate 55.

And yet people will continue denying climate change as the very mind blowing events once only seen in movies comes to life in front of them. No one will be safe, and it will only get worse.

WTH??

I worked a lawsuit a decade ago about a fatal pile-up from driving into smoke. Loss of visibility is so dangerous. Sad for the victims. There were also 7 bodies found in Oklahoma in a search for two missing teen girls. Expect that'll make the news soon.

it's good day to be wearing a mask.

In the 1930s settler farmers plowed down perennial prairie grass to grow wheat. Rains and crops failed, land dried up, and the soil blew away. That environmental disaster, The Dust Bowl, was documented by Pare Lorentz in “The Plow that Broke the Plains.”

Isn’t this the way the dust bowl started? 😳😳😳

I lived in Illinois for 30 years and I've never seen anything like this. Wild!

History is not a straight line but a circle. If you don't know what's next, check a history book (unless of course they're banned in your state)

Our weather forecast in central IL today included a “special weather statement” about 40 mph winds and a warning that farmers plowing dry fields could result in visibility issues. We are having a very dry spring