"I didn't expect to see nothing alive": Farmers hit hard by historic Midwest flooding

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    "I didn't expect to see nothing alive": Farmers hit hard by historic Midwest flooding

    CBS News: Midwest flooding: Farmers hit hard by deadly floodwaters react to devastating loss.
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/farmer...mont-nebraska-2019-03-19/?ftag=CNM-00-10aag7e

    It's really sad that flood hasn't made it to latest us and world news here on this forum. I'm

    This is really bad folks

    guy had 700 hogs now he has 14...it's going to take months for the farmers to even get back to a place where they can work and it's time to plant

    And I wonder if the chemical fire in Texas had anything to do with relaxed regulations?

    Global warming might be a hoax but climate change is not. It appears the frequency of severe weather events is increasing to me . But I'm only 55. I wish I was billions of years old and I would know the weather record for sure
     
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    You blame trump for the flooding?

    Thats a new low for liberals
     
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    Here in Aus we just had flooding that wiped out 50% of the states cattle herd. The army had to help bury the bodies
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    Mozambique has experienced a cyclone that has wiped out half a city and is being called “the greatest natural disaster in the Southern Hemisphere

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    But the climate isn’t changing......

    At least that is the thinking of those safe and sound posting on thier iPads in thier bedrooms

    Farmers know better, here ,USA, Africa. They are all experiencing tragedies
     
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    You find blame where none was said?

    A new low for the right
     
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    Consider the source.

    Yes, the floods in Nebraska and those down under are bound to have an effect on the availability of food, and of course prices we will pay.

    Living in the flood plains of those mighty rivers can be dangerous. Even Offutt air base was flooded.
     
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    So farms built on a known flood plain flood but it's due to climate change now?

    You know that they are called flood plains for a reason don't you?

    Because they, um.....flood.

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    In the great spring flood of 1965 we took four cars and a station wagon full of shovels, mops, and buckets from school up to Iowa to help out. It was bad and Trump was of course responsible for that flood also, along with the mosquito swarms he sent.
     
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    I think it's a little disingenuous for folks to claim that these floods are unique or for that matter unusual. They happen. They have ALWAYS happened. They occur yearly to some extent or another. There is not such thing as "normal", just natural. We shouldn't EVER expect that we shouldn't have risk because we forgot about it for a couple years. The N Platte River, the Missouri River, the Ohio, the Mississippi.. they all flood. Some years, they are worse than others. Our very topography have been shaped by these rivers over thousands of years. They must be calculated into the cost of doing business as a farmer.

    But, for some reason, there are those, like the above, who insist that only their goldilocks version of weather is acceptable to them.

    And instead of rejoicing that the snowpack in CO, WY, MT et al is actually above average this year, the life giving water that represents is being spurned. And for what? Devotion to a narrative? That seems unsuccessful. But for this crowd.. it's always too hot, to wet, not wet enough. They are NEVER happy about the weather. But what they expect is for folks to feel the guilt so they can be required to fork over more of their income to pay for that guilt. All the while ignoring the fact that flooding is natures way of replenishing the fertile earth.
     
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    It's going to stay as bad or get worse with the snow melt. Yesterday in Minnesota the Mississippi was still quite tame at all the gages from Grand Rapids down to Iowa at Keokuk where the flooded Des Moines empties into the Mississippi. 50 degrees coming in a few days. Totally normal and ordinary. Floods. Who woulda thunk it.

    The US Hwy 51 bridge over the Ohio at Cairo was closed on Presidents Day and Trump caused that. It recently was reopened and magic caused that.
     
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    I live in TN, we still haven't dried out from out last little flood in Feb. Water is still way up, and places that flooded are still under now very stagnant water. We hope a little magic might make it our way...
     
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    Gonna be four hungry children and no crop in the field most everywhere for quite awhile I'm afraid. But I believe and hope in magic, too.
     
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    It's what TDS looks like when it's not being projected at others.
     
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    I think libs will blame every natural event on man made climate change
     
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    The climate is changing that's a fact, but it isn't due to man - or at least externally it isn't. Internally is a different matter, since all existence in our tactile world is bound by the same 'attraction' or love-force that created us. Every deviation from it disturbs the bond that unites the world, but these are deep theological concepts that cannot be easily understood.

    The reality is that our earth is heating up and it is being caused by the sun - but I'm not a physicist so I can't explain the how and why. We are in though for some horrendous times, and it won't be a first. I'm certain though that every major change in world events was caused by changes in the earth - including the barbaric invasions into Italy that are now believed to have been caused by a catastrophic eruption - maybe in Iceland.

    Wherever it was, it caused decades of famine and threw much of the world into darkness. Also the bubonic plague which was so devastating and killed off two thirds of Europe's population probably had its roots in climate changes as did so many things.

    Right now there are volcanoes erupting everyday in the Far East and Central and South America. Earthquakes are also ncreasing in numbers and velocity. Anyway I'm a firm believer in an expanding earth, and it looks like we might be in for another expansion.
     
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    Well there goes the price of bacon through the roof.
     
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    Is that better than an apocalyptic war over religion?
     
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    Bacon prices should be fine. Odds are the bacon you eat doesn't come from the Berkshire hogs ge is raising. I am guessing he was contract feeding for a specific market that want outdoor raised Berkshire hogs.
     
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    For the past couple of years we have been plagued by one natural disaster after another affecting one part of our country after another.
     
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    Good cause it's on sale for a dollar a pound if you buy it in the ten pound box.
     
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    I shouldn't be laughing at what you said, since the floods were catastrophic for so many, but I can't help myself. It was funny.:roflol:
     
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    I personally eat very little bacon, I never liked it that much. Which is to bad because I know a bunch of people at the plant and they are always offering me bacon. I can't give it away fast enough.
     
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    Pray for Nebraska

    It's bad

    The price of pork just went up significantly
     
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    Just as well. The poor guys had stored their soybeans praying for higher prices. The storage bins were also flooded.
     
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    If the hogs had survived there wouldn't be any food for them right?

    I just smell severe impactst to the economy I don't know how you just absorb things like this easily
     
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    I though you said they were blaming it on Trump ? ... Are you changing your story now ?
     
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