No flooding, just severe rain, hail and wind damage. Lots of downed trees and a car dealership had all it's cars pelted hard by hail, they are selling what they haven't sent to auction pretty cheap.
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No flooding, just severe rain, hail and wind damage. Lots of downed trees and a car dealership had all it's cars pelted hard by hail, they are selling what they haven't sent to auction pretty cheap.
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My buddies that trade corn & beans say the fields look like onion fields. How far gone is the crop?
My buddies that trade corn & beans say the fields look like onion fields. How far gone is the crop?
Mason Michaels
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In our area,the fields are under water,doesn't look like they will dry in time for corn,maybe soybeans.
ThatOwlWoman
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Oh geeze. Hope your car babies and property are undamaged.
ThatOwlWoman
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Hasn't even been planted yet in most areas hit by the severe and unrelenting storms.
Another tough one for farmers......
Mason Michaels
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When,I lived in the city,it never entered my mind,the problems of farmers.
Now when I live in the country,and know farmers,it's a different story.
Yep, I would never do it, it is way to hard, way to many things that can & will go wrong & for not much profit.........
Mason Michaels
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Most farmers work regular jobs too
Yep< & many of their wives do as well for benefits/health insurance etc......... extremely hard lives..
Last night I was bored & did a google earth & checked out where my grandfather was born & lived till about a teen........ Southern Alberta, nothing there....... They get less precipitation that we do(about 19inches) & it is frozen half the year....WTF!!!!
I think they grew wheat or something but you can see why they got the hell out of there & moved to beautiful Vancouver, BC...
He never talked about it much, & I can only remember the story about a frozen solid horse one of them left out...... Prob to late to report that sever child abuse now...lol
ThatOwlWoman
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Ugh. Mr. Owl also grew up on a farm in the middle of Bohunk, Illinois. Absolutely flat terrain, the only trees divided property lines. His h.s. graduating class had <100 kids in it. No library, no shopping other than a tiny and overpriced IGA, no restaurants other than a truck stop where his mom was a cook. Even his school friends were too far to visit by bike. He hated it; didn't even like going back to visit when his mom was still alive. He moved to St. Louis as soon as he graduated from univ. The town is still there but even more impoverished than when he was a kid. But in other news, the elementary school they all went to was turned into a BYOB strip club.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/us/04club.html
Eagle_Eye
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Ugh. Mr. Owl also grew up on a farm in the middle of Bohunk, Illinois. Absolutely flat terrain, the only trees divided property lines. His h.s. graduating class had <100 kids in it. No library, no shopping other than a tiny and overpriced IGA, no restaurants other than a truck stop where his mom was a cook. Even his school friends were too far to visit by bike. He hated it; didn't even like going back to visit when his mom was still alive. He moved to St. Louis as soon as he graduated from univ. The town is still there but even more impoverished than when he was a kid. But in other news, the elementary school they all went to was turned into a BYOB strip club.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/us/04club.html
Speaking of strip clubs. When Bitburg AB was closed and was returned to Germany all the buildings were converted into other things by the Germans. The base chapel became a strip club. lol
ThatOwlWoman
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Capitalism at its finest! lol
Ugh. Mr. Owl also grew up on a farm in the middle of Bohunk, Illinois. Absolutely flat terrain, the only trees divided property lines. His h.s. graduating class had <100 kids in it. No library, no shopping other than a tiny and overpriced IGA, no restaurants other than a truck stop where his mom was a cook. Even his school friends were too far to visit by bike. He hated it; didn't even like going back to visit when his mom was still alive. He moved to St. Louis as soon as he graduated from univ. The town is still there but even more impoverished than when he was a kid. But in other news, the elementary school they all went to was turned into a BYOB strip club.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/us/04club.html
My dad grew up in a similar situation there.. Are you sure on that name of the town??
ThatOwlWoman
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Neoga? That's the town. Have you heard of it?
No, never heard of it.. He was from the other side, along the Miss.. Very flood prone, nothing there even today..
ThatOwlWoman
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Yeah, that area has really been getting pounded this spring so far. Heavy snow melt, then relentless rain.
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