Long Term Effects Of The Dust Bowl

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After viewing different perspectives on all three events, the Dust Bowl seems by far the worst for several reasons. These reasons are: having trapped people with little supplies for 10 years long, losing loved ones and people they cared about, getting their crops abducted along with most of there animals they could not longer care for, and their financial investment was ravaged and so was most of their lives. The dust bowl was hard to get away from because you couldn't see you food storage died away dust killed whatever was outside for too long and it stretched for miles. We reflect on the past to survive to solve future problems the dust bowl could happen again.

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