Black Blizzard Research Paper

The rumble turned into a shake that made Amanda and I turn around. The sight was indescribable. A massive cloud of dust darkened the sky. Almost like a tsunami of dirt. One of the towers collapsed. The dust burned my eyes to the point where I almost closed them completely. We ran fast but it felt faster because we couldn't see where we were going. I tripped a few good times. Amanda twisted her ankle so I opened one of the near by cars that was unlocked. I helped her in the car. We both thought this was the safest option and we were both out of breath. We could hardly see out the windows, in fact we couldn't. I pulled out my phone at this point. I had 19 missed calls from my parents because they new I was eating at the Copper Lantern which was near the Twin

In some cases, school was cancelled because of these storms. In the same year, slightly after noon on January 21st, a dust storm was reported that rose up to 10,000 feet in the air with winds that blew 60 miles per hour. According to Duncan, the local weather bureau called it “awe-inspiring” and “most spectacular”. An Associated Press reporter gave the Dust Bowl its name the day after Black Sunday, which was the worst dust storm reported (Ganzel). These storms were so devastating that people had to cover their faces with wet rags in fear they would get dust pneumonia, a deadly condition where dirt would clog up the lungs (Klein). They were also fearful of being caught outside of their house in the middle of a dust storm, because the storms rolled with thousands upon thousands of fine particles of dirt that would completely block out the sun, and no light could penetrate the blanket of darkness (Ganzel). The residents of the Great Plains couldn’t even escape the dust inside their own homes. The dust would somehow percolate through the tiniest of cracks, crevices, or gaps in the walls, windowsills, and door frames (Duncan 51). These deadly storms were also capable of producing so much static electricity between the ground and the airborne dust that even a simple handshake could initiate a spark so powerful it would knock them to the ground (Klein). The entire region of the Plains was affected, and eventually the entire country (Ganzel).

The Dust Bowl affected children in a big way by ruining their health, and causing them to see extricating things. “The children of the Dust Bowl saw things that no one, no matter what their age, should see. And they are as capable as any witness of telling those things with devastating directness.”(Williford) This analyzes that the children had seen things that in today's life, other children could not handle

“As a ‘double whammy’ of drought and depression deepened on the Great Plains, more and more farmers gave up or were forced off of their land” (Winter). According to Bart Robinson, an eyewitness, “Many people thought it was a plague” (Robinson). The migrant workers started moving away. “When pioneers headed west in the late 19th century, many couldn’t resist the lure of the tall grassy land in the semiarid Midwestern and Southern plains of the United States” (“Black Sunday”). Many people did travel to other states. Though “the exact scale of migrants is unknown but it’s estimated that up to 400,000 Southwesterns moved west during the 1930s and to 300,000 moved into California a decade earlier” (Sander). Dust Bowl refugees found roots in California (Winter). “Sometimes they found work, but mostly they found heartbreak and anger” (Robinson). They had once “owned profitable farms. Then they had nothin’ but hunger and dirt and two cents a barrel” (Robinson). Some migrant workers had trouble finding houses within their price range. “Many of the migrant workers lived in labor camps”

Yet another ‘Black Blizzard’ has stricken the Great Plains. We all are familiar with the Dust Bowl currently taking place in the heart of the country. As of right now, a problematic drought can be the cause of these storms of dust but no rain. Without water, there aren’t any grasses, shrubs and such that plant their roots in the ground. Those roots keep the very light soil that is available on the ground. However, when there isn’t water, the wind can take the dirt up in the air for miles across the land. From Texas to Oklahoma to Colorado, drought is affecting the locals. Already, thousands have left their settlements in this area, many of them have gone to California.

The black plague was one of the worse epidemic of the world. This disease was a horrible and spread widely thought the world at a rapidly rate. The black plague arrived in October of the year 1347. This disease was arrived by sea when 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina, through the black sea. When the ships arrived to be docked there was a horrifying sight to see. The people on the boats were mostly dead and the others were barely holding onto life, that they had left. For the passengers that were still holding onto life were having symptoms of very high fevers, unable to keep any foods or liquids down, with also the agony of pain that they were having. The most unbearable thing that the black plague did to the

I was sitting on the porch, unwillingly playing with my 3 year old sister, Winnie May, when disaster struck. The year was 1931. I was 8 years old when the 1st wave of blackness swallowed our house. At first, I thought it was a wild fire, we had been having a drought after all, but this, This was just as bad as a wild fire. I later learned this was a deadly dust storm.ath

The author want to include eyewitness so the have been in a dust storm and have experience what first hand . In the article it says that “Paul fisher can remember seeing many dust storm throughout the years but never one this big.” That means that he wanted to put it in because they want to it in real life experience .Also it says “ he was walking his dog one day and he thought he saw a big dark wall but it was a bad dust storm”.The author wants to use real stories and evidence to make the article more interesting.Also he wants more in the article because it is doesn't make it boring and they can explain what really happens.

On April 14, 1935, the citizens of the Great Plains woke up to a great day, awesome weather: clear, warm and windless. It was a welcome break from the near-daily dust storms—induced by drought and poor agricultural practices—that had been devastating the region. The rejoices time was short-lived. Later that day, the sky turned purple as temperatures decreased and the wind picked back up. The biggest, largest, and widest dust cloud yet, shot down from the Dakotas all the way to Texas, shorting out cars, turning the sky darker than night and prompting predictions of Armageddon. Black Sunday, was the name of the storm according to the townsfolk, would spark increased government action against the Dust Bowl, but not before huge segments of the

From that point I could still see the railroad, some trees with no leaves and a giant wired zones filled with bricks, that looked like destructed houses. It took me a wile to process what I was seeing, until I notice I was freezing, in fact I have never been this cold in my life. It was a combination of the weather and emotions. There were kilometer and kilometers of mess that was a prove of what happened there. A layer of grass, a layers of wire, grass again, and destruction. You could see brick columns all over, the rest, was left to your imagination. I was sad, crying for hours non stop, it was not only freezing but the air felt very heavy it was very hard to breath.

The article, “Black Sunday”, is about the life of a girl named Catherine who lived through the biggest dust storm in American history. The dust storm happened in April 14, 1935 in the countryside Kansas. Before the storm, Kansas was already dealing with a drought and many dusty wind; there was also the great depression which lead to many families, including Catherine’s family, to barely afford anything. Catherine saw the biggest dust storm when she was at her grandma's house, she thought it would be the end of the world. Scientist believe the reason of why a huge dust storm was created was because of all the farmers taking the grass off the fields, after this incident people in that area amv found a different and more environmental way to farm.

When I walk up out of the basement I knew my she was yelling. The whole house was fill with dust, like 1-2 inches of dust. After that we go outside to check the yard, all the plants were gone and all the holes in the yard were now filled with dust. If you look off to the distance, all you see is dust and when I foused, I realize dust was still falling from the sky. After we see everything that the storm did, we start cleaning.

"Have you ever been snowed in? What about no power or no heat? Imagine what it would be like to experience a blizzard, in winds whipping snow around at 35 mph or higher! It’s not about how much snow there is to determine a blizzard, it’s about how strong the winds are and the amount of time it lasts,” explains TV weather forecaster, Al Roker. “Usually blizzards are 3 or more hours and they can be harsh and deadly. Just to think about powerful, strong, frigid air and snow swirling around me is scary in a way.”

Why would people leave their homes to go to a different state? There are many people that left their home for various reasons. First, the west had very rich farm land. Lots of people would travel to the west because the soil was so rich, and they didn’t have winter so farmers would be able to grow crops all year

The Black Hills was covered under a considerable amount of snow about one year ago, leaving entire cities helpless, and ten-of-thousands of people without power. It was known as “Winter Storm Atlas”. Atlas left a scar on our community, both emotional and physical, and the snow has since melted, the rebuilding process still isn’t over. Even though blizzard warnings were told, it seems that no one could be prepared for this insane storm in the black hills.