How many dust storms were there in 1932 in the dust bowl?
It is impossible to count the number of wind storms that contributed to the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930’s. In one day alone in 1935 over 20 major windstorms ripped through the state of Oklahoma and blew what little topsoil there was left so far that the sky of Boston turned blood red. Visibility in Tulsa, the capital, was five feet. The number of storms in 1932, the winds coming down off the Rockies and ripping the already parched southern Great Plains, would surely number in the thousands. From 1930 until 1939 in Northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Southern Nebraska and Colorado, yearly rainfall was less than 6 inches where it once was 20. Millions of livestock perished and a whole generation of farmers and sharecroppers were uprooted from the land and descended on the West Coast.
