The story and crazy tragedy of the way the 1930’s turned during the major dust storms. Hundreds of thousands of people died from natural causes but others died from dehydration and starvation because there was no food or water. The wind dried up all the water and the crops dried out, with no water there was no food and with no food people were starving to death. The dust bowl began in the early 1930’s it came to us in waves of three. First in 1934 then during 1936 and third during 1939-1940.
The dust bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies. During the drought the soil began to turn to dust and get bigger as the wind blew from every direction. The storm forced out thousands …show more content…
The dust bowl was a man made and a natural disaster at the same time. Man because of the way they plowed the land dry and natural because of the massive winds. It was the dust storms that turned daylight into night weren’t apocalyptic enough. Seemingly plagues of jack rabbits and grass hoppers descended on the plains and destroyed whatever major crops could grow. The storm circled with a powerful static electricity, enough to almost light your house. Most of the families did not flee their homes in hope that the storm would disappear like their land, had but they had no luck. It was one of the worst disasters of all time that are yet to come our …show more content…
In the beginning of the 1930’s there was a record wheat harvest in the year of 1931. Do to the plowing of the land and all the harvesting the crops began to die because the land had dried up. When farmers plowed they went farther down then they should have and the land dried and the wind began to blow which caused the dust storms to happen. When there was no water on the land and the wind was blowing they dust turned into tornadoes and began to kill thousands of people at a time. Basically without water animals and humans began to