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Oh my gosh, I’m watching the flood on the news, my heart goes out to all those folks! If any of you are effected, God bless and keep you all. This is just so devastating to watch home after home after home destroyed. We’ve had horrible floods in my general area here every ten/15 years or so, since 1955 and we go through fire season every year, but this flood going on in the south now looks like it’s affecting entire huge areas of several states…
The flooding is awful. A lot of the land, that is being deliberately flooded to save the cities, is farmland. It will be a long time before that farmland is dry enough to plant any crops; and by that time, it may be too late in the season to plant at all. So we can expect large increases in prices of many products and foods.
A lot of people are going to be out of work for a long time, and others have lost everything. They are facing hard times and need our prayers.
Goody
years before the land is farmable due to all of the topsoil and nutrients in the soil that will be lost. And that doesn’t even take into consideration the toxicity that might be present after the water recedes. I’m in NW Ohio and we are six inches over in our normal rain totals and have not put one seed in the ground yet. Having said that, my heart just aches for those farmers in the Mississippi River area. God bless each and every one of them!
which is on the Mississippi River. My mom’s best friend’s mother lived right on the river and every year, we’d have to go and move her out because her house would flood and then clean up and move her back in after the water receeded. But would she move, no way. There are so many people who live or farm in the flood zones but they will not leave, knowing that practically every year they can count on being flooded out. (As far as farmers, that land along the Mississippi is very fertile because of the flooding, so much more preferable to the inland acreage.) And they have no insurance because companies will not insure them. Sad but these people know what they are in for and still won’t do anything about it.
My compassion is for the people who get flooded unexpectedly and lose everything they have. So tragic. But people are resilient and always seem to bounce back. Look how many people have rebuilt and are back to normal in New Orleans, etc. Look how the area hit so devistatingly by Andrew in South Florida has rebuilt. Look how San Francisco recovered after The Big One, or even the 1998 earthquake. We survive. Let’s just help how we can and pray for those we can’t help.
as I’m in western NY where it has been the wettest spring on record. It’s demoralizing for so many businesses and agriculture, not to mention just plain depressing to see rain every day and you can’t even mow the lawn which is looking like a field.
I also raise goats and they haven’t been able to get on pasture. I can’t see an end in sight right now.
But those who have to evacuate on the Mississippi are the ones having it the worst.
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