The Dust Bowl: Could We Face It Again

The Dust Bowl was a very tragic event for many thousands of Americans. Many people in the Great Plains region were faced with some of the hardest challenges in their life. A lot of families were forced to leave their homes for some other place where they could find work because the barren land was unable to produce crops to support their farming lifestyles. Woody Guthrie sings, "On the fourteenth day of April of 1935, there struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky. You could see that dust storm coming, the cloud looked death-like black and through our mighty nation it left a dreadful track" (The Great Dust Storm). The severity of the Dust Bowl was not due to any single factor. During the 1930's the Great Pains were plagued with drought. Their average rainfall was far less than normal, and many temperature records were set that have not been surpassed today. …