Personal Narrative: Surviving The Black Blizzard

Surviving the Black Blizzard

We are going through a massive drought in Oklahoma. We had just gone through the Great Depression and now this. We are struggling to pay for our land or even buy food. We have no idea what to do. I had talked to my wife and she had told me, “We should just wait it out for a bit and hope everything gets better.” I had reminded her that the government was taking people’s land and that we do not have much time. We had decided to go to breakfast with the children and let them know that we were struggling. We weren’t able to get much food though.
While speaking with the children we saw a huge cloud of dust. My wife and I grabbed towels and wet them to give to the children to put on their faces. Catherine, my wife, was telling the children, “Do not panic just get behind a wall and put the wet towel on your face.” Cody yells, “What is going on?!” I replied, “I will tell you when we make it out of this.” We were waiting for the storm to pass by and it had been at least thirty seconds. Once it had passed

we were full of sand and had went straight to the car. We had an idea to go West toward California tell these storms and the drought go away.
The only things we grabbed from our home, or at least what was left of our home, was a couple of canned foods and a tent.

As we are on our way towards California our car starts to slow down by itself. We were in the middle of nowhere with no one around, because we are taking a different way. We did not want to wait in traffic. I woke everyone up and told them that our car was out of gas. “How could this happen?” said Catherine, “How have you not noticed?” I did not know how to answer her question. We looked at a map that we had in the car. We started to push it toward the nearest main road. We saw others broken down on the side of the road. They had a flat tire so, we decided to help. In return we were able to get some of their gas that they had. It was already getting dark so we pulled over on the side of the road. We made the tent and fell asleep. Catherine asked, “Will we make it out of this?” I replied, “ We will found out

tomorrow.”
Furthermore, we had just enough gas to make it to California. Cody was very excited to see other people and people having fun. As we get to the camp we see at least five hundred people in a small piece of land. When we drove in a man asked us how many people could work and had told us where we had to go. I had started working in a job the next day building roads. This gave me just enough money to buy food for the family. That same night I told my wife, “Told you we would make it out of this.”
One massive drought caused all of this. This was such a terrifying thing to go through. We were struggling to get by and could not afford food for the family. We are now hoping that everything clears up and that the drought goes away, so we could move back to restart our farm. I had promised her that we would make it out of the storm safe and we did. As long as my family made it with me it does not matter what happens. We will always stick together.