U.S. Dust Bowl of 1930's

A segment from Discovery Channel's Making of a Continent about the dust bowl wind erosion of the 1930's

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• soil
• erosion
• dust
• bow
• NRCS
• eolian

[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.

[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

[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!

[pouya381]

I iwsh I could download the video.

[niselat]

@mvdiablo enjoy your dust penumonia

[Vigilante1993]

The Dirty 30s

[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.

[malcolmmorin]

@pokepl123 lol XD

[Eragarev]

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

[pokepl123]

@mvdiablo i dont think you do

[thinkquickable]

@Kaplah1

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

[mvdiablo]

I want to play in the dust bowl.

[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?