"Millions will be Mourning"

This is a little late in publishing and thank goodness I am sure some places have improved a tiny bit. I'm sure not enough and the problems with recovering are never easy. I am really hesitant sometimes to publicly publish this kind of messaging stuff but ... Some of us are just made different folks. Just push delete if you think this is to goofy for you. 
When I first posted about "Millions will be mourning". I had wondered about the water holding the dams in the nation could handle. When I asked it was a little vague but it's like a combination of things maybe a knock on effect. (links at the bottom if you want to skip the reading)
   I don't think it is any 1 place, I think there are several that are in bad shape and just can't take the stress of all this flooding. For the message to say millions I would think either several or a least one near a really really large population that could just disappear a lot of folks. It would be really unimaginable bad in these modern times. Since I first started writing this I have since learned there is a genuine worry about terrible diseases in the US like EBOLA and a few other nasties. When I get these messages without a complete definitive explanation I can't help but try to figure it out. I don't know if I'm just not meant to know or I am just not asking the correct questions. Either way when anyone gets a message out of the blue put into their head if nothing else it's a good idea to just be aware and be ready. Not to the point you worry yourself silly or totally upset you and the families life. Just be alert to any changes that your family may need to make to stay safe. 
   People just don't stop to think. We are all in a daily rut to live and cope with life. Some have lived in places and never had serious problems so it's just something they don't think will happen.
 Our infrastructure is tired, worn out in places and the states just can't keep up the fixing jobs with the amount of money they have.
I am from the Ark Oklahoma line around the Ft. Smith area. My daughter is sending me pictures of so many flooded area's that have never flooded before. I'm not talking about just a few inches over the roads I am talking FEET some midway up a semi truck deep. Everywhere she goes you have to go around somewhere or you just can't get there at all. Hospital workers that live in Oklahoma and work in Ark are having to drive over a hour just to try and get to work. Nikki's husbands parents live in northern Oklahoma and they have to go around 30 minutes to get out away from their place. Van Buren, Ark has a historic flood gate area where students have painted for many years the towns history. The flood gates are closed now and I believe the water is up and over the wall. A lot of historic places and some of the river bottom industry is being flooded. Levies are giving way in Logan county. Even if the rain stops there are so many places having to let out water through their floodgates and that water all goes downstream and towards the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers.
    I am sure it is the same story in many other states right now.
    This is just talking about the structural damages of roads, bridges, homes, stores and industry.
    My daughter is replanting the summer garden items now and crossing her fingers.
    Now think about all the 1000's of acres of all kinds of crops that just got washed away or rotted in the field. Not only is that a lot of food folks won't get and the prices will go up that is also a lot of farmers and ranchers that can get put under from the lost revenue. Even with government help on the loses it's never enough.
    Take a look around and if water is a issue in your area please make sure you have a way out or leave before you have bigger problems. As for the other weather events.. like tornadoes..... try to keep the rabbit hole dry and stocked with some bare essentials.

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Ranchmama

   This was posted by DS about a dam that has all kinds of structural damage that appears it could give way with very little effort. Lets hope it and others hold up to the stress.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jiuiMWuoA
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8lnDfyfMZM

Flooding Damages

Daughter lives near Fort Smith Ark where there has been really terrible flooding.
She's fine because she lives on a mountain.
She is hearing around her that most people didn't have any insurance at all on the homes much less flood insurance.
People are hearing that FEMA is only giving folks $6000.00 ! I am not sure how accurate that is but that is what is being heard.
The people in charge are just walking down the street condemning house after house. Her and her husband has been recommended on some list to assist with the clean up with their machinery, a CAT 305E with a thumb excavator. She said most of the property will just have the lot they are sitting on to sell in hopes of getting some money back. Some of these homes are large super expensive river front homes and there will be no way to rebuild. Personally these floods may have been a 500 or 1000 year flood but I wouldn't want to rebuild there for sure. It happened once and sure to happen again in the future.
   I can't imagine how you would bid a clean up like that. You have X amount of hours in the project then you have who can tell how many dump truck loads to fill and dispose of wherever that may be designated to be at.
   I am sure there are probably health hazards associated with being around all the mold and building material floating around in the air. He has a cab to work in if they get a job there but for sure needs some masks.
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Ranchmama

The Ever Changing Weather and it's Problems

I was watching the news the other day and they were predicting up to 16 named hurricanes this year.
I instantly heard 24. Now I don't know if that means 24 in total or named or what just... 24.
I then heard the east coast will be devastated.
How do you get ready for a hurricane?
Probably much like a tornado except we go to the rabbit hole and their rabbit hole is pack up the autos and vacate to a different town a long way away.
    The weather is just bad everywhere. People are so tired of the worry and coping and we are just talking about the folks that aren't even having the real flooding problems ! The people that have been relocated, or their homes damaged or totally destroyed are going to be trying to cope with that for years.
   Talk to your friends and relatives. If you are a prepper  and they know it they will either welcome the chat or blow you off. If you know they are going to just turn off the warning words just maybe ask them simple questions every now an then so maybe they will think about such things. I am constantly surprised how many people I run into that say.... Oh, I never thought of that! Make comments like.... 

 Wow, how in the world would you get out of your place if it flooded?
Are the roads around you ok when it rains forever? 

Between floods, hurricanes and tornadoes there is going to be a lot of folks without even every day simple things like a change of clothes or even a toothbrush.
I have no clue what I would do if I had to worry about hurricanes. What do you do?
I just can't get over how bad the weather is! Places are having flooding worse than a 500 year flood that have never flooded before!
Maybe talk about the weather and how food prices are really going to go up now that the gardens and fields have been flooded everywhere.
   Daughter has a certified organic truck patch. She plants several hundred plants at a time. She said the cabbage didn't make because it got to hot to fast. They were the size of golf balls. The potatoes didn't produce well and a lot had mold she had to clean off. The onions were a real mess,They would just squish water if you lightly squeezed them they were so rotten.
    I talked to a lady up in Illinois ? And she said normally farmers start planting in April but it has been so wet they haven't been able to get into the fields to plant.
    Another man I talked to in Oklahoma has a seed company and sales are really slow for his kind of seeds because the window for planting them has past with all this wet weather. I was also told that hay is really a shortage already out there.
    What this all means for Tim, Tammy, Granny and Grandpa is that available produce at the market will be higher and probably not as good as it should be. The meat prices will go up even more because the grain at the lots will be scarce or expensive for the animals to feed. Flour for bread and baked goods will not fair any better.
      My plan is to go to wally world an stock up on my favorite non GMO, High protein, Wheat Montana 10# flour sacks and put in the freezer. I use more cornstarch than I thought I would ever do and I have no clue where it's going. I'm going to stock up on the big containers at Sams club.I have recently started using organic oatmeal and cornmeal and although I have a decent supply I will get more. I don't go through a lot of onions but I will get some large onion, chili, garlic powder spices. I have fresh garlic growing all the time but powdered is good also.
    I cook from scratch so my needs are different. If you are a box and prepackaged cook you better stock up on the cake mixes and veggies etc. you use. Most all of these things will last a year easy enough with just normal storage. Maybe things will be better by the next crop growing season.
Well got to go. I have a new chocolate vegan cupcake recipe I want to try.
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Ranchmama