Couple hours ago it was 1700 fatalities and 2/3 the rice crop lost. Can the USA make up the shortage in rice?
Can we come up with enough rice to feed 100 million people, from our surplus?? Well our total annual export crop is about 5 million tons. Bengladesh is short 27 million tons. What do you think? (figures based on Wikipedia article).
Uh oh. That rice crop loss may be far worse in the long run than the death toll from the storm.
I’m hearing that at least this time there was an evacuation, and that sounds like it maybe saved thousands of lives. They’ve had losses in the tens of thousands there before, and with regularity.