they would dampen cloth and seal up the cracks around their doors, windows and any where else there was an opening
Well actually it was very hard to breathe during that time. Some people died from it. But they actually had special masks, so they wouldn't breathe in the dust.
It rained
No
migrants
to California
Before the days of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, the area was rich, fertile farmland. During the Dust Bowl, most of the irreplaceable topsoil blew away essentially removing farming as a viable vocation in the area.
The steel plow had just been invented and it ripped through the top soil and grass. This made the earth and soil VERY loose. The dirt created the dust bowl, because all over farmers were buying the steel plows, they were less work. During the dust bowl dust and soil covered EVERYTHING in the south. The farmers couldn't hardly keep anything they planted alive because it would be covered in dirt. Dust storms killed alot of crop and covered not only crop but houses. So it affected farmers by killing crop. At lease if the farmers were in the south it did. They could not pay their loans or afford to buy basics.
They did stuff
No
Oklahoma Dust Bowl farmers who migrated to California to find work.
Farmers did not practice crop rotation.
1930
migrants
The "Dust Bowl"
to California
Many lost their farms.
They were unable to pay their debts.
Because of the dust bowl duststorm
Life for California farmers during the dust bowl was horrible, the farmers would go plant their crops and when the dust bowl come their crops would be black and start to rot because they became not any good anymore.