USA Agricultural disaster of Biblical proportions!

bluegreen

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Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

The flooding that just struck the middle part of the country was the worst blow to U.S. farmers in decades, but now the National Weather Service is telling us that it was just “a preview of what we expect throughout the rest of the spring”.

Can that possibly be true?

After the immense devastation that we have already witnessed, how much worse can the flooding possibly get? Already we have seen thousands of homes and farms be completely destroyed, and we are being told that the total economic damage is in the billions of dollars. Sadly, the truth is that a lot worse is still yet to come. Thanks to a very snowy winter, a massive amount of snow is going to melt during the next several weeks, and that alone would produce tremendous flooding. But on top of all of that melting snow, forecasters are telling us that it will be a very rainy spring. In fact, the Weather Channel is warning that there will be “above-average precipitation across much of the Lower 48” over the next three months, and one meteorologist is forecasting that it is “not looking like we are going to see any dry stretches anytime soon”. And this is on top of all of the very heavy rainfall that has been falling in recent weeks. At this point, the Mississippi River basin has already gotten “three times as much rainfall as in a normal year”.
Even without any additional flooding, U.S. food production would be way down this year. The recent flooding is going to keep thousands of farmers from planting crops on time, and thousands of others are not going to be able to use their fields at all.

But when you factor in what is going to happen over the next three months, we are talking about an agricultural disaster of unprecedented magnitude in modern American history.

At this moment, some areas in the Upper Midwest still have “more than 20 inches of snow” on the ground…

In the eastern Dakotas and Minnesota, more than 20 inches of snow remains on the ground. The Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers drain the central United States, but it takes several weeks for the water to travel downstream. In the meantime, emergency officials are warning local residents to make evacuation plans as well as purchase flood insurance in certain areas.

All of that water has to go somewhere, and authorities are warning that 200 million people are at risk

The record-setting floods deluging the Midwest are about to get a lot worse. Fueled by rapidly melting snowpack and a forecast of more rainstorms in the next few weeks, federal officials warn that 200 million people in 25 states face a risk through May.

A lot of people out there seem to think that the flooding will just be isolated to the major rivers, but that is simply not true.

Yes, all-time flooding records will continue to be shattered along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, but the National Weather Service is telling us that nearly “the entire eastern two-thirds of the nation” will be dealing with flooding this spring…

spring…

Almost the entire eastern two-thirds of the nation should see flooding this spring, National Weather Service deputy director Mary Erickson said at a news conference on Thursday. Some 25 states are forecast to see “moderate” to “major” flooding, the weather service said.

The Midwest floods are “a preview of what we expect throughout the rest of the spring,” she said. “The flooding this year could be worse than what we have seen in previous years … even worse than the historic floods we saw in 1993 and 2011,” Erickson added.

Are you starting to get the picture?

This is the worst case scenario for U.S. flooding that surpasses all previous worst case scenarios. Thousands more farms will be destroyed. Billions of dollars worth of additional damage will be done to our agricultural industry. Food production is going to come up way short, and we are all going to experience tremendous pain at the supermarket as food prices skyrocket.

If you live in any of the following areas, you need to have your emergency plan ready, because things are about to get really, really bad…

The areas under the highest risk of moderate to major flooding, according to NOAA, are the upper, middle and lower Mississippi River basins, including the mainstem Mississippi River, Red River of the North, Great Lakes, eastern Missouri River, lower Ohio River, lower Cumberland River and Tennessee River basins.

U.S. farmers have already lost millions upon millions of bushels of wheat, corn and soybeans to the flooding that has already happened. As I have repeatedly stressed, our planet is changing, weather patterns are becoming more severe, and even if they understood what is happening there is absolutely nothing that the radical environmentalists can do to stop it.

Just look at what is happening on the other side of the world. Australia was just hit by a “severe category 3 cyclone”, and this came exactly one day after it was hit by a category 4 cyclone

A severe category 3 cyclone blew into the key mining region of Pilbara in Western Australia Sunday, forcing evacuations and a halt to port operations, as the north of the country dealt with the effects of an even more powerful storm that hit the previous day.

Cyclone Veronica weakened from a category 4 storm before its core winds hit the coast near the mining centre of Port Hedland, but officials warned the system was slow moving and would continue pounding the region with gale force winds and heavy rain for 24 to 48 hours.

We are witnessing things that we have never seen before, and “the new normal” is just going to keep getting stranger and stranger.

If you live anywhere in the middle portion of the country, please take this flooding very seriously. Authorities are using apocalyptic language to describe this crisis, and they are not exaggerating the potential threat one bit.
 
That'll be the same America whose president dismissed U.S. government scientists’ predictions that climate change will impose devastating economic costs.

“I don’t believe it,” Trump told reporters, when asked about the grim forecast in the government’s National Climate

Never mind just keep warmongering, invade a few more countries and fund the military industrial complex to keep the economy going.
 
OK reality check...
Yes,Nebraska and bits of Iowa etc are a mess. More snow to melt off the Dakotas won't help. But that article is unjustified end of the world hoopla.
Read Agtalk - their marketing page does not miss half a chance to talk up the market...this flood barely registers.
Some version of snow melt flooding happens every spring.. this one is worse than average, worst ever for Nebraska maybe, but as far as food security goes 2002(??) was much more significant.
 

Scribus

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That'll be the same America whose president dismissed U.S. government scientists’ predictions that climate change will impose devastating economic costs.

“I don’t believe it,” Trump told reporters, when asked about the grim forecast in the government’s National Climate

Never mind just keep warmongering, invade a few more countries and fund the military industrial complex to keep the economy going.

What did they find to blame the dust bowls of the 30's on?
 
Good snowpack in the southern Rockies, Rio grande basin at 150% of average so a good water year in prospect..........we can still get some good snows in the high country..........Wolf Creek Pass total so far this season stands at 476 inches as of today.
Main highway has only been closed briefly due to avalanch control.
 

pine_guy

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Good snowpack in the southern Rockies, Rio grande basin at 150% of average so a good water year in prospect..........we can still get some good snows in the high country..........Wolf Creek Pass total so far this season stands at 476 inches as of today.
Main highway has only been closed briefly due to avalanch control.

:eek: 12 meters of snow !!!!
 
BBC world service reported this morning that President Trump has started to divert money for his promised wall along the Mexican border. Sets me thinking that the money could be better directed towards those that are now going to suffer hardship /financial ruin, as a result of this flooding.
 

PSQ

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Arable Farmer
It would be nice to read a more objective report of the situation from the likes of @Roger Perry and Co.

If you read the link in the opening post you’ll find that Michael Snyder is an ‘end of times’ fantacist selling a book called ‘The Begining of the End’, with a cover showing supposed illuminati icononography. In short he’s probably not what anyone would call an impartial witness :bored:
 
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BBC world service reported this morning that President Trump has started to divert money for his promised wall along the Mexican border. Sets me thinking that the money could be better directed towards those that are now going to suffer hardship /financial ruin, as a result of this flooding.

Not a matter of either or........plenty of funding available to help with situations such as this, we have an agency who;s job it is to help folks......FEMA...Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The wall is totally a different agency/funding.
 
I wish we could rely on something similar during an emergency natural event. It takes our politicians at least two weeks to start talks on if there are funds available. Then it is unlikely they will agree on how it is to be directed.
(oop's I appear to be having a synical moment).
 
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East Mids
Some horrific posts on twitter, those affected feeling grossly unrepresented in national media. Longer range forecast is for a wet spring so many saying little prospect of any planting. Infrastructure in a lot of Nebraska is completely trashed, roads, bridges, fresh water wells, farms etc. Loads of livestock and stores gone.
 

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