Says farmers face devastation.
Doesn’t mention a word about food shortages.
But i’ll buy 2 extra big macs later so I feel safe :)
I grew up in that area.
Winslow is without power and a mess. Highway 77 is gone for a few miles. My family in the area (we all live on high ground) have power, but no internet or phone service.
It is like a war hit. People are going back into the areas but many have nothing to come back to.
To the north and west... well buy beef now. The herds got hit hard by snow during calving season.
It is hard to think about what got destroyed. Many are never coming back, many more will go under without any means of recovery. These two events, the snow cyclone and floods, will have a long term effect on the ag markets.
Remember, at one time it was important to have a 3 year reserve. Now if we don’t use the last bushel of old crop the day the new crop comes in we screwed up.
China has agreed to IMPORT RICE for the first time ever. Let that sink in. Why does this article mention the US China trade war as if we’re losing?
I generally don’t like government intervention in the marketplace.
But this event seems like a tragedy and I hope the government steps in to moderate the damage so that these communities can recover and not face permanent loss of their way of life. That would be bad for the country.
One more thing.
I am related to the people mentioned in the article. The have a nice dike around the farm, and had moved the tractors to a place that has never flooded.
The pictures I have seen show the tractors buried up beyond the axles. That was at least 4 feet above the record high, and over $500K of rolling stock destroyed between those two
Sorry to over post. This hits me hard.
Hey Warren Buffet, this is your Chance to PAY MORE TAXES, Maybe the State should pass a Special Assessment on the Rich to pay for the floods.
OMG!
No ethanol for gasoline!
If the price of gasoline goes up one penny because of an ethanol shortage, then do away with it for a month.
Once people realize their milage goes up 10% ethanol joke will be gone.
U.S. farmers face devastation following Midwest floods, which will probably hurt Trump. Hooray! Hooray!
- Yahoo News
There. Fixed it.
We need to change the old saw to; everyone dies, but women, children and farmers hit worse.
There is a risk in any thing we do, that is what capitalism is all about and Americans love the risk.
so while there may be a lot of complaining the American farmers will pull their boots back on and go to
work.
While a socialist would give up and start whining to the government the Americans will come out of it come
hell or high water, so don’t let this bad news get you down and don’t start passing the blame.
The Americans with their do it myself attitude has came through much more than this many times and will come
out of this.
Endanger the food supply? More like endanger the ethanol supply.
somewhere along the line I would hope someone figures out a way to pipe flood water west to the western deserts.