Dustbowl film landing

The Dust Bowl

By vitali4
  • The very beginning

    The very beginning
    In the 1920s the region which receves an avarage rainfall or less average of three inches (500mm) in a typical year then suffered a severe drought in the early 1930s.Date not correct.
  • The beginning

    The beginning
    Severe drought hits the midwestern and southern plains. As the crops die, the 'black blizzards" begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow.Date not right.
  • Growing bigger

    Growing bigger
    The number of dust storms is increasing. Fourteen are reported this year next year there will be 38.Date not right.
  • The struggle

    The struggle
    Farmers strugged even more because the drought came during the great depression.Date not right.
  • The states hit

    The states hit
    The states that got hit were southeasten colorado,western kansas,the pannanles of texas,oklahoma,and norteastern new mexico. Date not right.
  • Abandoned homes

    Abandoned homes
    Some 30,000 famililes moved to farm camps in california.Date not right.
  • Extreme heat

    Extreme heat
    Extreme heat made the dust bowl drought even worst.Parts of texas reached 120F (49 C) in 1936.Date not right.
  • Lack of rain

    Lack of rain
    A lack of rain and strong winds ruined farmland and created the region known as the dust bowl in the 1930s.Date not right
  • Rain On Your Way

    Rain On Your Way
    Near the end of the 1930s rainfall finally increased.Date not correct.
  • The End

    The End
    By the early 1940s the fields were productive again.Date not right.