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I held off on reading my book this week, and decided to focus on current event, just so I could know what is going on around the world this spring. This article that I read was called Fargo floods turn farm fields into sprawling lakes. If you couldn't guess what this was about, it was about a farm town being flooded. They had an enormous flood, after having one last year. It was 19.5 feet above the flood stage. For one farmer, Thomas, he had to take a truck down to the main road, and then once he got there, switch into a motor boat. Once he got to the point where it was too shallow to ride the boat in, he would transfer to the truck that was awaiting there. Think of how much work this has to be, just switching the transportation must take a while longer than it would normally take you to get to town, and then you have the boat that makes you go slower. The boat does not go as fast as a truck, and you have to be cautious, just incase there is something that might cause an accident. The farmers were worried that they were not going to be able to plant their crops in time, and that it would destroy the crops. Some of them were worrying about their cattle, or livestock drowning. The previous year's flood had already destroyed some of the farmable land, and now another flood comes, and could potentially destroy more. Although this will cause many problems, it is also a blessing, it boosts the productivity of the rich, loamy soil.

I hope, and think that everything is going to be alright for those farmers. I predict that some of them are going to loose some of there livestock, as did they in the 2009 flood. I think that their crops will be fine, and rich too. I can only imagine how much stress the farmers have right now. For the farmers, I think that they are going to make a good income this season, and everything will turn out the way it was planned, at least almost the way it was planned.

Article written by: Steve Karnowski