The Dust Bowl: A story of Survival

[krazyyoungster]

I attended Sunset Middle School, it's right next to what was called Weedpatch Camp. now there just a part of the original camp and the rest well just apartments.

[Moodye2]

If anyone from Denbigh is watching this video, give us a like would you?

[zomzgwtf]

@Moodye2 Ewan, you're such a thumbs up whore

[chiledoug]

yah my parents were there..my dad worked in the ccc they actuall did ok because the lived in rural so utah..but...could we survive this now i don't know..

[MrCraig1930]

The only sacrifice I remember was, no crops. It was too hot for crops, everything dried up.  The Dirty 30s ended before the Depression did.

[putyourhandsup01]

Thats really sad and true.

[hotsemmi23]

i have nothin to say this is so sad

[MrCraig1930]

I remember the Dust Bowl, I also remember Black Sunday in 1935.

I had to help my parents put wet rags over the doors and windows.

Later the WPA, NRA and the CCC camps came around to plant trees and built a lot of lakes.

[eteachme]

@MrCraig1930 It was so cool doing the research for this project. I mostly concentrated on the people who left the dust bowl. It's amazing that people lived and survived this strange and horrible event in our history. thanks for the comment. It made me think! :D

[MrCraig1930]

@eteachme My folks place was paid for, my Grandparents settled there. We still had livestock and a garden every year, water wells never went dry in my area of Kansas. Later my father went to work in the CCC Camps operating Dozers to build lakes and flood leves. Toward the end of the Depression my father bought foreclosed Farms for half of what they were worth, the place I'm currently on has more than 3000 acres.

[lkellermanl543]

@MrCraig1930, i'm doing a paper for american history about the dustbowl and was wondering if how did your family survive after the great depression? what was it like for you, did you have to make many sacrifices? if so, what kinds? how did you survive?

[laosuwan]

i always wondered who became the owner of the land that these people left, which is now quite valuable?

[eteachme]

@laosuwan yeah, that's true. they probably had to sell it for half of what it was worth. the down side to capitalism.

[lazybbones]

fatmama very sensitive portrayal of an era in our history we pray will never happen again.

[minggnim]

Excellent video.