5 facts about the dust bowl

fact #1

• the dust bowl made it to the atlantic ocean
• the dust bowl was 2 miles high and traveled over 2000 miles

fact #2

• the black blizzard unleashed plagues of jackrabbits 
• their was a "war" on rabbits they where killed and piled up
• grasshoppers ruined remaining crops from the harvist

fact #3

• the name "dust bowl" was made by a newspaper
• the news paper released a article in April 15, 1935
• the  word dustbowl was invented by a man named Robert Geiger

fact #4

• the dustbowl created tons of static electricity
• some people would know a storm would come
• they knew from the large amount of static electricity created

fact #5

• the dust was deadly
• people almost died of dust pneumonia
• hundreds of kids and infants died every storm