What was going on?
In the Midwestern and southwestern states families went through death and high loss of crops. Poor agriculture practice and years of drought caused numerous Dust storms throughout the 1930's driving families out of their home bringing them to the west, mostly California. This gave farmers a harder life in a already tough way of living. Some fathers of the family had to leave their whole family behind and start new, little girls and boys may have never seen their dads again. The President Franklin Roosevelt had to act quickly and fired back with a statement addressing the drought that was taking place. Roosevelt had thousands of small ponds built and stated that next year the government will help with production loans.