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2008-06-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Hundreds ordered to flee IA city flooding

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Posted by lotp 2008-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Other info (various sources):

Quaker Oats is toast - Closed Indefinitely - HUGE silos of grain up to their necks in flood-water. General Mills - it will not be producing for a LONG time.

Cargill - Their huge grain storage bins are filled with water and the RR in and out collapsed

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is one of the worlds largest agricultural processors of soybeans, corn, wheat and cocoa. - Under water.

Penford Corporation: Nature. Science. Solutions. - flooded out - RR access gone Manufactures modified starches, dextrin, spherical dextrose, potato starch and fiber, tapioca starch, breading, cryoprotectants and other food additives.

Even though were 13 miles EAST of the big river problems in Cedar Rapids the stress (stench?) in the air is unbelievable. Only one little road open in and out of here - bridges and roads washed out - 20 mile trips are now 180 or more going AROUND all the devastation.

Flooding in the Midwest has swelled rivers and submerged roads and rails, halting or delaying shipments of food, fuel and other goods. Manufacturers also have been forced to suspend production of everything from oatmeal to pork products.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-16 11:21|| 2008-06-16 11:21|| Front Page Top

#2 That'll be showing up at a grocery near you soon.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-16 11:40|| 2008-06-16 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 No doubt this is a result of Glowball Warmening and all those droughts.

Posted by AlanC 2008-06-16 15:39|| 2008-06-16 15:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Alan, apparently you didn't get the memo. The problem is now Climate Change. This has the advantage that any problem can be blamed on it - droughts, floods, record snowfall, record heat.
Of course, it is all man made, and most of it can be placed directly on George W. Bush's shoulders.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-16 19:31|| 2008-06-16 19:31|| Front Page Top

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