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Drought begins, affecting the Midwest and Southern Plains, drastically reducing or eliminating the US and world grain supply. .
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Only 18 storms in one year provide insufficient rainfall to grow crops.
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Farmers slaughtered 6 million pigs to reduce supply and raise prices.
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27 states affected by drought (75% of the country), including many countries around the world. President Roosevelt passed the Soil Conservation Act to teach farmers better methods of growing crops.
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Estimated that 850 million acres of nutriant rich topsoil was blown off the southern plains.
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Action is taken to prevent the same thing from happening in the Great Plains.
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Dust Bowl has past it's peak, protection is sent to the boarders of Nevada and Oregon to keep out the undesirables
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Blowing dust has diminished but the drought continues.
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Regular rainfall finally returns to the region. Estimated number of lives lost is unknown but some believe it is in the thousands.
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Rainfall is back to normal, The Dust Bowl ended and crops are growing, and the Great Depression is coming to an end. Estimated that 7000 men, women, and children lost there lives in the Dust Bowl. The next trial of human endurance is about to come...WWII