The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a treacherous storm, which occurred in the years of the 1930 s,
which affected the Midwestern people, an example the farmers, which taught us
new technologies and methods of farming. John Steinbeck wrote in his novel from
1939 The Grapes of Wrath: And then the dispossessed were drawn west from
Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas; from Nevada and Arkansas, families,
tribes, dusted out, Caravans, carloads, and homeless. Totals of 20,000, 50,000,
100,000, and 200,000 people. They streamed over the mountains, hungry and
restless. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, food, and most of all
for land. The early thirties opened with prosperity and growth. At the time the
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Although the dirt storms were fewer in 1934, it was the year, which brought the Dust
Bowl national attention. In May, a severe storm blew dirt from Oklahoma, Texas
and Kansas as Far as New York City and Washington D.C. In spite of the terrific
storm in May, the year 1934 was pleasant respite from the blowing dirt and
tornadoes of the previous year. But nature had another trick up her sleeve, the year
was extremely hot with new records being made and broken at regular intervals.
Before the year had run its course, hundreds of people in Texas, Colorado,
Oklahoma and Kansas had died from the heat. In 1935, this storm was followed by
another and another in rapid succession. A description of the storm of coming was
made by a farmer: The storm caused a tremendous amount of damage and suffering. A
giant dust storm engulfs Boise City. Tremendous winds rolled up to two miles high,
and stretched out a hundred miles with speeds faster than 50 miles per hour. The
storms destroyed vast areas of the Great Plains farmland. The methods of fighting
the dust were as many, and varied as were the means of finding a way to get
something to eat and wear. Every possible crack was filled, sheets were placed over
the windows and blankets were hung behind the doors. Often the places were so
tightly plugged against all the dust that the houses became extremely hot and stuffy.
The clouds appeared on the horizons with a thunderous roar. Turbulent dust clouds
rolled in