The following sentences form a paragraph. The second and fifth sentences of the paragraph are given. The rest are numbered as P, Q, R, S, and T. These five parts are not given in their proper order. Arrange them in the correct order to make the paragraph meaningful and then answer the questions given below.

P. Another 125 million acres—an area roughly three-quarters the size of Texas—was rapidly losing its topsoil.

2. But its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer.

Q. Massive dust storms began in 1931.

R. It began when severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Great Plains in 1930.

5.   A series of drought years followed, further exacerbating the environmental disaster.

S. By 1934, an estimated 35 million acres of formerly cultivated land had been rendered useless for farming.

T. The Dust Bowl, also known as “the Dirty Thirties,” started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade.