The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. The dust bowl was a really hard time for farmers because of the devastating effects. The crops dried up and they didn’t have any way of income besides the harvest. The effects of the dust bowl on the people where also very harsh. Many people died by being suffocated by the sands. Many of the would die slowly and painfully because they had breathed in the thin dust particles in the air. The reasons most people where dying where because of breathing the thin dust that would come into their homes and because of the plagues.

After the dust bowl effects where dying of there where really frightening plagues as if they where out of the bible. Thousands of rabbits running wild across the plains and in the cities. The residents where forced to hunt and kill the rabbits because they where overpowering the towns. The cause of this horrible nightmare was that the drought had killed of many of the wolves and other of the rabbits predators therefore that nightmare happened. Another plaque that took over the area was the insects plague. Deadly spiders, centipedes, and locust/grass hoppers. People where often bitten by spiders but if the venom was deadly enough they would eventually die. The centipedes where just another plague that took over homes and that would hide under every rock and would hide in every little crack. The enemy of the farmers where the locust. They would eat up all the crops and wouldn’t let the farmers take advantage of there little crops they could raise.