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| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 06/08/2008 : 05:26:04
The weather has been relentless the past week in Indiana. Tornadoes ravaged parts of the state earlier in the week, accompanied by torrential rain, and this weekend, we've been hit by floods (see the slideshows on the page) as up to 10 inches of rain caused rivers, creeks and small streams to overflow their banks, and dams began to fail.
My backyard is a lake, the sump pump is about dead. I will contact the county emergency office Monday, since I read that my county has been declared a disaster area too, so there may well be funds to replace it.
Poor Indiana. We've suffered blizzards, ice storms, tornadoes, and floods so far this year. We've mimicked Canada, Kansas, and New Orleans. And through it all, the corn is still pushing its up way through the standing water. There's still more than corn in Indiana. There's old-fashioned grit, guts and determination, and we'll get through this too.
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 06/15/2008 : 06:35:57
It is unfathomable, and really disasterous. What's worse, the economy now in the USA isn't strong enough to help those hit by these natural disasters, and the long-term effects are going to make the economy even worse. You people had better start asking your presidential candidates both about global warming and what they're going to do about soaring food prices (which I'm sure is going to happen with all these crops being ruined). Something they should consider is a heafty tax on capital gains from commodities market - since the only people going to get rich from all this will be those that bought futures in corn, soy and wheat when there was pleanty and will be able to make a huge bundle when the prices go through the roof.
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| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 06/15/2008 : 01:22:51
I remember watching the television in horror when Hurricane Katrina unleashed on New Orleans, when the levees broke, when the world watched as the city sank, when the powers that be faltered. As horrible and devastating as that was, the relentless water came and, in part, went in a relatively short period of time.
Now I'm watching, day after day, night after night, and now, week after week, and the water is still coming. Rivers overflow, levees and dams fail, tornadoes leave their own devastation. New Castle, the larger town 6 miles to the west, has more than a dozen sinkholes throughout town, including one 100 feet long, 6 feet wide and 8 feet deep. Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri. Millions of acres of cereal crops (corn, wheat, soybeans) have been destroyed. Meanwhile, the east coast, including New York City, experienced near 100F degree heat, with heat indexes surpassing that mark. Now they are tossing around phrases like "500 year flood."
I don't know. I'm writing this because it's nearly unfathomable. Is this what global warming brings? How much worse will it be in my lifetime? Where will it end? I just don't know.
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| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 06/09/2008 : 04:50:58
Thanks to all. The flooding continued to rise in some areas today, receded in others, but there is a forecast for rain again tomorrow (Monday). I wonder about the effects of global warming, but none of this is unprecedented in Indiana, although it is a bit later in the year than we usually have such weather. There were infamous killer tornadoes through here, one of the worst of which was on Easter weekend, in 1965. There were horrible floods in the earlier parts of the 20th century. This is all being caused by unseasonally high temperatures (around 90F), fed by moist air flowing up from the Gulf of Mexico, which is being met by cooler air coming down from Canada. The really bad part of this, besides all of the losses people are suffering from property damage, is that the floods are swamping planted farm land, at a time when some of those crops (yeah, yeah corn, soybeans, tomatoes) are very vulnerable. It has far-reaching possible consequences, as there are a few bio-diesel plants just opening in the area. And gasoline reached $4.00 average today.
Luckily, lemmy, since Fishers isn't all that far away, and Greenwood got a generous dosing of flooding! Hopefully, the upcoming spares them as well.  |
| lemmycaution |
Posted - 06/09/2008 : 04:46:02
Sorry to hear about your problems. My inlaws in Fishers were spared, thank goodness. |
| Conan The Westy |
Posted - 06/08/2008 : 23:59:30
Yikes. We're trying to fill our lake which hosted the Olympic rowing in 1956 but these days could be used for the Henley on Todd regatta.
If you've got water to spare, please send some our way.
On a more serious note, we're thinking of you and hoping things improve. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 06/08/2008 : 13:26:09
Yuck! Must be that global warming stuff.
(And what really bad timing does Hallmark have these days. They just aired this mini-series about hurricanes, tornadoes and blackouts here. Not fun stuff to watch, I can tell you.)
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 06/08/2008 : 12:06:05
Oh, that's horrible ... my best thoughts are with you over these damp days.
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