As America plummeted skyward in the 1930s, the country also stumbled into a cataclysmic depression. Farmers across the country cried in pain as huge swarms of dust particles broke loose and disfigured cultivated land. The dust seeped into the homes, barns, and lungs of innocent people, infecting them with what was called dust pneumonia. Farmers have suffered greatly from the destruction of their farms due to land theft. This has affected the health of animals, crops, homes and their families. Horribly timed, this catastrophic explosion of filth contributed to the Great Depression and America's economic demise; proving that this storm is the most serious environmental crisis to hit North America. It was this burst that gave the United States in the 1930s the nickname "Dirty Thirties", the dust bowl that emerged from it only evaporating around ten years later. The “Dust Bowl” is described simply as an agricultural nightmare, which wreaked havoc from 1930 to 1941 on plantations in the American Midwest. Ironically, the very people who suffered from the storm brought this calamity upon themselves. The cause of this bolus is believed to be the fact that large-scale farmers were overproducing too many crops, thereby stripping the topsoil from farmland. Of course, not all of the blame lies with overproduction, but a combination of drought, scorching temperatures, and insignificant but vitally important prairie fires also played a role in causing the bowl. These events made the ground fragile, loose and subject to the winds that pass above the earth, creating a colossal horde of dust. Obviously the cause of the dust bin was overproduction and various factors, leading to the demolition of farmland all over North America, proved that the dust bin...... middle of paper.. ....d, crispy and grainy with a thin papery layer. layer of dust at each portion; by consuming such severe meals, people often developed fragmented teeth. Driving and operating machinery outdoors became a huge danger as dust greatly reduced visibility. Because the dust carried a large amount of static electricity, anything metallic – such as grinders, pump handles, saucepans and doorknobs – produced a violent electric shock to the person in contact. Those outdoors should wear gas masks to prevent illnesses such as dust pneumonia and to avoid inhaling dust. Dust contains a large amount of silica, but when inhaled for increasingly longer periods of time, silica begins to coat the interior of the human body, unambiguously continuing to coat the entire respiratory system. (Carson and Bonk1). For most, the dustbin was the most miserable time of their lives.