U.S. Dust Bowl of 1930's

[Vigilante1993]

The Dirty 30s



[malcolmmorin]

@pokepl123 lol XD

[Eragarev]

Just started reading the Grapes of Wrath. That's why I'm interested in this video.

[mvdiablo]

I want to play in the dust bowl.

[pokepl123]

@mvdiablo i dont think you do

[elmondark]

@mvdiablo i dont think you would. ppl choked to death from sand filled lungs, even if they stayed inside their houses. because of dust particles trapping heat, temperatures rose by alot, so some ppl died from heatstroke, and dehydration. unless they died from getting lost in sandstorms, on their own farm first

there's some relatively new documentary about this, saw it some year ago.

[niselat]

@mvdiablo enjoy your dust penumonia

[straightlife]

A great book about this is:  The Worst Hard Time, about the "nesters" and what they did and what they individually suffered.

[wardubo]

so the farmers were already struggling before the Great depression and then when the great depression began, it worsened?

[BRTOMBOI]

Goes to show that with all our tehnology, knowledge and mechanism, you can't conquer Mother Nature without there is fallout.

[MrCraig1930]

@richardcwood1 I remember 1936. It was rough, temperature got up to 114 that year. The Dirty 30s plus the Depression what a way to start in life. My parents stayed around and bought up a few of the forclosed farms cheap.

[No2Hate4Ever]

they say that arizona is gonna be a dust bowl, good thing i dont live there.

[nathanwilefrazier]

I always show my three year old this when he asks why we need to dust.

[sguitar1442]

Can anyone tell me what exactly happened with all the dust? Did people just build over it?

[Kaplah1]

@sguitar1442 The dust that blew off the plains during the dust bowl became soil deposits in the land that was downwind. Probably scattered out in all directions, entered into rivers and carried into the gulf of Mexico. Material moved by these winds are called eloian or loess deposits, a very common soil parent material. So ultimately yes people built on them or are farming them today. All part of the soil cycle.

[sguitar1442]

@Kaplah1 Thank you very much

[nucsol]

@sguitar1442 We planted shrubs and grass to help heal the earth and create a rooting system that would hold the soil together. This was a man made disaster caused by the stripping of the land and the dust was the farmers top soil. Much of it was blown out to sea or just blended with the existing surface soil or washed down river. In spite of our efforts, 70 yrs later we are still one drout away from another one.

[Darc1228]

if u think the dust bowl in the 30's was bad wait till the economy crashes and farms go down the shit hole, dont think it'll happen? wach the documetary the collapse and if that dont change your mind than i have no sympathy for u when u starve to death

[foxysquerl]

lol i just was talkin about dis in school

[Trojanbabe88]

I saw this in my history of the American west since 1900 class...where did you obtain this segment?

[Kaplah1]

Got it from an old Discover Channel series called Making of a Continent ca. 1989-1990

[matt4jeff]

i read out of the dust in my class. it so sad everyone dies!!!!! its really good though

[runestone317]

dang it u spoiled the ending for me im reading the book for english -_-

[BTgirl1296]

Yeshh we are learning about erosion in Science class and the dust bowl was an example. Its a form of wind erosion it was cause because there were no planes or roots to hold the dirt down and they had no windbreakers :)

[elizabeth2041]

dude my mom and my grandparents never knew that the dust bowl happen

[Kaplah1]

If they grew up in the U.S. they must have heard of the 1930s dust bowl, if not tell them to go back to school!

[thinkquickable]

@Kaplah1

if youre not gonna say something nice, then dont say anything at all. 

[stigmaweb]

I am from Brazil and I learned about the Dust Bowl in your country!!

[A4efrt]

@elizabeth2041 Then they are retarded

[SpiralUp1]

Major American History right here.

[MrRunzalots]

I just finished reading Out Of The Dust in class. Depressing book.

[no1zgrl4eva]

Did you read The Grapes of Wrath? My GOD, what a statement on humanity and it is still just as true today. If you need something, ask a poor person, the rich person is too interested in getting richer to have any heart or soul left iinside.

I drove ROute 66 and am about to again next month, all I could think of was all those poor people barely making it, all desperately hoping for the orange trees and pretty view that awaited them. Truly a terrifying look at mankind.

[yammyspeed13]

Ah yes, that's the time when we knew how to feed people the organic way!

[no1zgrl4eva]

What a horrible nightmare that must have been. And what it did to those poor people. The Grapes of Wrath ~

[Belthal]

If those people had thought about what they were doing, they didn't had to suffer the Dust Bowl

[no1zgrl4eva]

You mean the people who plowed down the farms and forced the others to leave?

[Belthal]

I mean the people who coursed the Dust Bowl

[no1zgrl4eva]

Those who caused it...well yes but I don't think they knew what they were creating. The individual people who plowed over homes, who forced families to the road, who destroyed lives, they KNEW. But they did it anyway to save themselves.

[no1zgrl4eva]

I'm sorry, still not getting it, do you mean, the people who CAUSED it, or the people who WALKED THROUGH IT once it had started?

[Belthal]

big mistake, sorry :D yeah, i mean those who caused it.

[Kronnie1]

Dust devils, are more than likly the main cause, as i think they are the only thing that can list dust way up into the sky ...

[s90Jimmys90]

dust devils? the dust bowl was a man made catastrophe. people were farming and digging way too deep for the crops to grow. unfortuntly the crops still could not grow so they dug deeper.

then all of smallest and finest particles of the dirt were lifted by the winds and grew all by itself

[alleybow94]

allison tougas was here lol this video is sad.....

[roadtripper19]

Thanks for the video. I just hyperlinked it into my class lecture!

[bryandamadman]

Leave it to a bunch of rednecks to screw up everything.

[midnighttoker7772200]

yeah like they did on wall st. ? oh wait, that was a bunch of college grad city peeps. we should punish them the same way we should punish you. Lets let the rednecks have at them. Still a tough guy ?

[bryandamadman]

Yep, give a redneck a plow and they turn fertile land into shit.

[crazitaco]

@bryandamadman its not entirely their fault, you can also blame the government for using propaganda to encourage large numbers of people to settle the area by claiming that the fertile land would make them incredibly wealthy.

[dougpannep]

it is intense. a black blizzard was a wind storm that swept the dry loose soil into the air. People couldn't breathe. Animals were dying. Crops were gone. Horrifying to watch your family die of dust pneumonia. try this book...The Worst Hard Time. It describes in detail how difficult the time truly was.

[pouya381]

I iwsh I could download the video.

[midnighttoker7772200]

you can, google, how to down load you tube vids. good luck.

[sn0wwBl00d]

*FACTS*FACTS*

It caused ecological and economical damage to Canadian plains and to 100,000,000 acres of land: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.  There were a total of 40 'Black Blizzards'

[mangaboy22]

Wow.. This shows one of the negative effects of technology. Amazing, it was the tractors.

[Kaplah1]

I believe it was a combination of several factors all coming together - a period of drought and windy conditions, poor farming practices (lack of cover crops, wind breaks, etc), the new machinery of plows and tractors and lack of understanding of the soil that was being farmed. Only time will tell of the dust bowl will return.

[pinkoreo2]

actually it was that the farmers wanted land for their crops so they took away grass then they wnt in a drought and couldnt water their crops so it got all dry and then the dust came. i know because we studied it.