About the Dust Bowl

Who was affected by the Dust Bowl?

• Farmers were affected by the Dust Bowl because their farms were torn apart, dried out, and buried in sand and dust. They had no more crops to plant or food to be planted. There were no more crops to give to the manufacturing companies because they had no food to manufacture or sell.
• City people were affected by it because the farmers are the ones that provided food and other supplies for the people that lived in the city. They ran out of food and supplies to survive.
• Families were affected by the horrible trajedi because there were diseases going around and the families were getting really sick. There wasn't much food to go around anymore because all of the crops on the farms were dried out. Many people died because of horrific diseases.
• Animals were affected by this because they would get stranded on the farms or out in the middle of nowhere and get buried by all of the dust and sand. It was hard for them to survive because they didn't have any dust masks to put over their face like humans did so they had to inhale all of the dust and bad stuff flying around.

• The Dust Bowl was a dry period of time in the 1930's. 
• The dust would drift like snow and block out the sun for days. Black clouds of dust would take over the light of the sun. 
• It was a bunch of dust storms that dried out and ruined over 100 million acres. 
• The wind came in and swept out all of the dry soil that was held down by nothing and took over thousands of years to build.
• The Dust Bowl got its name from Black Sunday, April 14th, 1935. 

• Most of the damage occured from 1935 to 1938. 
• 1931, sever drought hits the midwestern and southern plains. 
• 1932, number of dust storms were increasing, 14 this year and 34 the following year.
• 1935, the dust storms were starting to spread from the Dust Bowl area, it is now covering 75% of the country severely affecting 27 states.
• April 14th, 1935, Black Sunday the worst 'black blizzard' of the Dust Bowl occurs, causing exstensive damage,
• 1938, the people put hard work in replanting the crops but doesn't do much, the drought continues.
• 1939, in the fall the rain comes, ending the drought. 
• The following years, with the coming of World War II, the country is pulled out of the Great Depression and the plains once again become gold with wheat.

• It happened because of a devistating drought that affected almost two-thirds of the country and parts of Mexico and Canada.
• The drought was caused by expected tropical sea and shore temperatures and the interactions between the atmosphere and the land surface increased its weather. 
•  Dust storms formed throughout the lands and dried everything out and covered all of the crops, top-soil, and plants.
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• It took place in Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
• The driest parts of the Dust Bowl were southeastern Colorado, southwest Kansas, and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas.
• Most of it took place in the southern Great Plains.
• *Many families packed up their belongings, piled it ontop of their cars and moves to the West lands.