Dust bowl

            The Dust Bowl? What do you think that is a bowl full of dirt? No the Dust Bowl occurred in the plain states from 1931 to1939. The Dust Bowl can be explained in many ways, also after eight years many peoples" attitudes toward the environment had changed. The Dust Bowl had lasted eight years from 1931 until 1939 once the rain had occurred. .
             What do people see when they think of the Dust Bowl? Well before 1931 the plain states flourished while the rest of the country was going through a depression. Then in 1931 the rain had stopped, it was seen as Armageddon to the farmers. People had seen topsoil that took a thousand years to buildup become a cloud full of dirt in minutes. Without the rain the fields went bone dry, the same fields farmers had seen as gold. Without the production of agriculture the farmers went broke, without jobs they were ashamed to take food handouts as well as checks. The Dust Bowl became so bad that the Red Cross called for a massive delivery of dust masks as breathing became difficult. Animals were found dead, suffocated with as much as two inches of dirt inside their stomachs. Most of the population had packed their belongings and headed west. Schools, businesses, banks were boarded and shut down; many towns had become ghost towns. Then one day a farmer tried to leave his home but was unsuccessful, as he was found dead the next day suffocated. People were becoming sick with what was known as "dust pneumonia" which was the cause of one third of the deaths. Then on April 14, 1935 otherwise known as Black Sunday an avalanche of dirt plowed through the Midwest. A person by the name of Hugh Bennet called a hearing in the nations capitol to discuss solutions. While a titanic cloud of dust was coming into Washington's way Congress saw first hand what was occurring in the Midwest. Then in 1939 it finally rained leaving behind it eight years of misery.