The Dust Bowl Hits Its Most Infamous Day (April 14, 1935) by Irelyn Burns https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68 Moments that changed America. en-us 2021-05-19 02:26:02 UTC 2025-11-26 00:57:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3dc.png The dust bowl was a drought that struck the southern plains region causing a severe dust storm. The Dust Bowl was caused by several economic and agricultural factors, including federal land policies, changes in regional weather, farm economics and other cultural factors. Crops began to fail and eroding soil led to massive dust storms and economic devastation—especially in the Southern Plains. 1377034 https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68/wish/1538086126 Source 🠗]]> 2021-05-19 02:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68/wish/1538086126 The dust bowl had affected many and the massive dust storm forced many workers to loose their jobs and living. The drought caused 46.6 million acres of crops to fail in 1935. Over 130 counties lost more than half of their planted acreage and the economy fell. Deflation occurred and prices for crops fell. By 1936, 21% of all rural families in the Great Plains received federal emergency relief. In some counties, it was as high as 90%. 1377034 https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68/wish/1538097885 Source 🠗]]> 2021-05-19 02:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68/wish/1538097885 The dust bowl couldn't have been predicted, however, Such conditions could be expected to occur naturally only rarely about once a century. But with rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, dust bowl conditions are likely to become much more frequent events. They are now at least two and a half times more likely to occur, with a frequency probability of about once in 40 years. 1377034 https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68/wish/1538112956 Source 🠗]]> 2021-05-19 02:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68/wish/1538112956 The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of poverty-stricken families, who were unable to pay mortgages or grow crops, to abandon their farms, and losses reached $25 million per day by 1936. Many of these families, who were often known as "Okies" because so many of them came from Oklahoma, migrated to California and other states to find that the Great Depression had rendered economic conditions there little better than those they had left. 1377034 https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68/wish/1538113757 Source 🠗]]> 2021-05-19 02:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68/wish/1538113757 https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/dust-bowl 1377034 https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68/wish/1538140819 Source 🠗]]> 2021-05-19 03:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1377034/jt3jluaej8oojd68/wish/1538140819