....the loss of farmland due to flooding.
I just don't buy it.
Sure, this year's crops are destroyed. Perhaps some land is affected by sand deposits, etc, or even affected by pollution.
Fences, roads, and other man-made structures can also be adversely affected or destroyed.
But the storyline that the land is lost for a generation? Come on.
A hundred years ago when I was in college I was taught that periodic flooding was what made a lot of farmland as productive as it was. Of course, I was also taught there was a coming Ice Age. :lol:
I just don't buy it.
Sure, this year's crops are destroyed. Perhaps some land is affected by sand deposits, etc, or even affected by pollution.
Fences, roads, and other man-made structures can also be adversely affected or destroyed.
But the storyline that the land is lost for a generation? Come on.
A hundred years ago when I was in college I was taught that periodic flooding was what made a lot of farmland as productive as it was. Of course, I was also taught there was a coming Ice Age. :lol: