The dust bowl was a horrible event for people because it was a severe dust storm that greatly damaged the environment, also a severe drought industry.
What is the dust bowl you might think it's dust in a bowl but it's not it's a period of dust storms that damaged people's lives and economy also a severe drought to cause a failure to dryland pretty much to make an erosion on land. Farmers over planted and overgrazed their lands, they also failed to plant drought resistant crops so when the crops dried out there was no way to topsoil them. The great depression caused the farmers not to plant as much crops as usual plains were left with barren protective grasses. Lasted about a decade, it mostly