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Originally Posted by R K T
Not doing what you might think........
We've been under tornado warning all evening, sirens are screaming, and the only "safe" room with no outer walls is the master bathroom w/c.
Storms have hit all day, but these tonight were viscous. Tornado touched down very close and then went back up just as it went over our house. Lots of damage nearby, a church destroyed, many injuries.
More storms later tonight and tomorrow....
STOP!!!!!
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Glad you're OK.
The weather in the American Midwest for the last 6 months has be extraordinary. I've never experienced such extremes and prolonged periods of bad weather. It has become so bad that it is going to effect the economy over the next year. Farm fields that normally have corn sprouting now are too wet to plow and will remain too wet for another couple of weeks. Corn prices are going to go up and soybeans and sunflowers will probably go down (farmers tend to switch to short season crops if their corn planting is late). Overall farm yields are going to be down, which is REALLY bad at a time when food has taken a bigger role in our exports.