Dust storm

It was 1934, darkness hit the United States. Dust storms came from all over striking as far as New York, Boston, and Chicago. Ships stop on the dock confused on what is going on. People are dying and nobody knows what to do. These deadly dust storms are known as the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was given its name after the series of dust storms that started in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico, a 150,000-square-mile area. This all started due to the little rainfall, light soil, and high

period of dust storms that damaged the ecology and agriculture of the United States and Canadian prairies in the 1930’s. Drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939-1940. Some regions experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years. The drought of the 1930 turned soil into dust, in which the destroying winds blew away in humongous clouds that sometimes blocked the skies. Choking waves of dust named “black blizzards” or “black rollers” traveled across the country. Great dust storms

black. A dry wave of dust, dirt and everything in between, 7000 feet high, is attacking you. Your family rushes to cram wet towels under any openings, as the obnoxiously loud Black Blizzard comes approaching you. It’s a scary sight, as rabbits and birds run for their life, the storm gets even closer. All of nature has a grudge against you, as even the wind pelts the soil against your home. Your mother gives you a wet cloth, which you put on your forehead. You still feel the dust, inside your mouth

The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters of the Twentieth Century anywhere in the world (Cook). The Dust Bowl killed many crops and made normal life hard, like breathing, eating, and sleeping. Since it destroyed a large part of agriculture production, it contributed towards the Great Depression (Amadeo). In order for us to better understand what the Dust Bowl was like, one must first look at what this natural disaster was, what the effects of it were, and

Dust Storms would rise up, take over house, create darkness and panic all while infecting the population. Millions of people died, they caused people to cough up dirt and question what they did to deserve this. In 1931 the wheat industry took a boom, allowing farmers in the south to prosper. Although the WWI would require loads of wheat, however if only the farmers knew there would only have drought and the great depression following at their heals. Due to the over plowing of the land, created thicker

Dust storm is an event happened in North America between 1930 and 1936, in some area lasted till 1940. Due to drought and agricultural expansion for several decades, the original North American Great Plains topsoil depth reclamation destroyed the original fixed soil moisture storage of natural grassland, and the absence of relevant measures to prevent soil erosion, the storm comes rolling dust, so that ecological and agricultural prairie Canada and the United States has been a huge influence. Prior

window seems. Creatures run and fly away from it And all of a sudden your mom hands you a wet towel to put over your face. In the mid 1930s oklahoma,texas,kansas,new mexico,colorado where hit by hundreds of these storms . It was one of america's worst natural disasters. The dust storms destroys property and threatened lives of the population. From 1900 to 1930 some families bought land in the plain states. Since it was hard to grow crops they could only grow corn and wheat for the cattle.

Many Dust Storms in the 1930s had Jurassic effects on the Farmers. Immediately they had to move and abandoned everything that they had known.This eventually affected them these were some of the reasons for The Great Depression. This made Farmers to adapt and, change their lifestyle in just a couple of minutes such as, losing farms, not being able to support their own family, owing bank money, and having to move to a different state. I had researched five different farmers from the 1930’s. They

setting: Oklahoma point of view: to learn how people felt during the dust bowl conflict: dust storm rising action: timmy was in a middle of a dust storm CLIMAX: Mia and Riley saved timmy falling action: Mia

only concern. Dust Storms, or “Haboobs” , have been occurring more frequently and intensely during the driest part of the year for Phoenix. These storms do not appear all of the sudden. Citizens can see the massive wall of dust slowly reaching them and in a matter of minutes, they are in the eye of the dust storm. Strong winds are circling at over 60 miles per hour and at times, there is zero visibility (Highfield par.2).By this description alone, one can only imagine how dust storms affect citizens