Farmers during the Great Depression A disastrous, tragic and a catastrophic event, is hitting the people of the 1930s, while they are suffering from the most devastating stock market crash, called the Great Depression, are going through another agony that is making it impossible for the people, especially farmers to survive. The Dust Bowl, also called the Black Blizzard, is ruining the lives of farmers. Farmers cannot pay their loans back to the bank because they do not own anything. Almost all of the farms are being foreclosed on, and an extreme drought is taking over the Great Plains. The soil is poor and becoming dust. The winds are picking up and are turning into a giant dust storms. The dust storms are making it hard for people to breathe,
