Surviving the Dust Bowl
Great Plains area were the most fertile area in the entire U.S. A lot of giants plants included fruits and vegetables were grow. Watermelon that larger than a man, grapes that bigger tthan basketball. It was green, beautiful, and also fertile. Unfortunately, most farmers were planting and farming without crop rotation. So, the farmers couldn't protect the land from erosion.
The rain stopped at 1931 and with a severe drought, the soil were changed into dust and blew away when the wind blew. The dust bowl affected area about 400,000 km square, centered in panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and in adjacent part of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. The Dust Bowl caused a mysterius illness in that area. Such as dust pneumonia and malnutrition. So, a lot of people started to left their home and traveled west.
Some of the people chose to stay. They used a mask to protect themselves from the dust. They covered their house with white cloth, even though they still have to clean their house every day. The dirt was mixed with the food and the water. Because of the heavy and thick dust, the plants died and the cattles starving.
In 1934, the frequency of the dust increased and had a different variety. Black Dust from Kansas, Red form Oklahoma, and Gray from New Mexico. In 1935, one over third people there languished dust pneumonia and malnutrition, especially children that their body immune weren't as great as an adult. At the end of 1935, the Dust Bowl stop. Most of people chose to move westward, lot of them chose California. Some of them still chose to stay there, want to fixed their everything as well as they can.
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