The Great 30s Dust Bowl

Prairie and the dust bowl

Between the 1830s and 1930s, in a 100 year span of nonstop crop rotation, which weakens soil of its nutrients, the soil, literally, turned to dust. Because of this, when there was a drought in the early ‘30s, the soil was blown all over the place in a giant dust cloud covering miles upon miles of farmland. People’s lives and farms were ruined and people abandoned the place leaving it a deserted wasteland, even today the land is still recovering and vacant houses lay dormant covered in dust.

Have any of you heard of this great disaster?