As America fell skyward in the 1930s, the country also fell earthward into a catastrophic depression. Farmers across the country groaned in agony as huge swarms of dust particles broke loose and disfigured farmland. The dust found its way into homes, barns, and the lungs of innocent people, infecting them with what became known as dust pneumonia. The farmers suffered severely from the destruction of their farms due to land clearing. It has compromised the health of animals, crops, homes and their families. With horrible timing, this explosion of catastrophic filth helped the Great Depression end America economically; proving that the storm is the most terrible environmental crisis to hit North America. This was the storm that gave 1930s Americans the nickname the “Dirty Thirties,” the dust bowl that emerged would not evaporate until about ten years later. The dust bowl is most simply described as an agricultural nightmare, wreaking havoc from 1930 to 1941 on the plantations of Midwestern America. Ironically, the very people who suffered the storm brought this calamity upon themselves. The cause of the basin is blamed on large-scale farmers producing too many crops, stripping topsoil from farmland. Of course, not all of the blame fell on overproduction, but a combination of drought, scorching temperatures, and mundane but vital prairie fires also played a role in causing the trough. These events made the ground brittle, loose and subject to the passage of winds over the earth, creating a colossal horde of dust. Clearly, the cause of the dust was overproduction, and various factors, which led to the demolition of farmland across North America, demonstrated that the dust bo...... center of the paper ...... d , crunchy and grainy with a thin layer of powder at each serving; by consuming such severe meals, people often developed fragmented teeth. Driving and operating machinery outdoors has become a huge hazard as dust has significantly reduced visibility. Because the dust carried so much static electricity, anything metallic – such as grinders, pump handles, pots and doorknobs – would give the person in contact with it a strong electric shock. Those outdoors should wear gas masks to prevent illnesses such as dust pneumonia and to prevent inhalation of dust. The dust contains a high amount of silica, but when inhaled for increasingly longer periods of time, the silica begins to coat the inside of the human body, unmistakably trying to coat the entire respiratory system. (Carson and Bonk 1). For most, the dust bowl was the unhappiest time of their lives.