Almost Half of the United States is Now Experiencing DroughtChris Carrington Oklahoma is baked dry. In the course of the most arid years, each acre of farmland can lose up to 70 tons of soil and then, wherever the dust is dumped, it can smother the crops it lands on. In the Oklahoma Panhandle, the most remote area of the state, recent rainfall has been so meagre that fears have been kindled of a return to the apocalyptic Dust Bowl scenes of the 1930s. Back then, agriculture collapsed and thousands of people left. LeLayne Tapp Of Boise City took the following pictures Unless something is done, a long-term plan formulated, life in a good proportion of the United states is going to become unbearable. Vast tracts of land once used for grazing or food production will lie fallow. The dust bowl conditions of the 1930s should not be forgotten, they could be returning to a town near you much sooner than you think. 