Just finished watching

The Dust Bowl, and was really affected by all the stories, and the pictures that looked like they came out of our old family albums. Is impossible to imagine what our families went through, as life became survival, on the Nebraska plains. It shaped their thoughts and attitudes in ways we can never understand, but a PBS program like this goes a long way toward explaining it. The drought that caused the disaster is now kept at bay by irrigation from the Ogallala aquifer, but that has been drained by 50%, growing mostly corn, turned into ethanol, that takes more energy to produce than it creates, thanks to gov't subsidies to farmers. Unbelievable, how stupid and shortsighted some people can be.