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Posted On: 7/13/2008
By: Dave J |
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I would like to start off by saying that my heart goes out to the farmers and their families who suffered the hardships this spring from the floods. When I worked for a dairy farmer in Nebraska we farmed some land that was close to the Missouri river and lost a lot of crops when the river flooded back in the eighties.
Is it just me or has anyone noticed the differences between the floods that occurred in the Midwest and the floods a few years back in New Orleans. Isn’t it amazing that the hard working country and small town folk just sucked it up and either moved to higher ground or worked together to survive. Unlike the occupants of New Orleans who expected the state or government to come to their door, hold their hand and walk them to some sort of transportation and then move them to safety. Of course once moved to a safer location these same occupants also expected to be provided a room, food, spending money and then a government program to rebuild their home. We had some of these vagrants shipped to my area where they used what money the government gave them to buy Gucci purses, Rolex watches, and other unnecessary items rather than using the money to survive. Of course when they were broke they expected more.
I was watching the news one night and it showed a young man, in Iowa I believe, sitting on his roof with a battery operated radio and a cooler with some food, water, and beer as the flood waters flowed by about 4 feet below his roof line. “We’ll get by” is all he said versus the New Orleans man who was standing on his roof just waiting for someone to come rescue him.
I take my hat off to the Midwesterner who still has the common sense to do what is right for themselves and their family, instead of expecting someone else to make decisions for them. In the military we had an acronym for this called SA. This stood for Situational Awareness. Either you have it or you do not. I would say the people in the Midwest had very good SA and the people in New Orleans had little or no SA.
Let us see here, the weatherman says a storm is coming, you see people fleeing the city, it is all over the news to evacuate, but no – someone will come save me…. Low SA
Of course that is just my two cents worth. You can now post comments about the blogs by selecting the link below and entering you own comments.
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Posted On: 5/13/2008
By: Dave J |
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Growing up on a dairy farm in the Midwest were the most memorable and enjoyable years of my life. So much so that even when I joined the Air Force, at the ripe ole age of 20, and was assigned to my first base of assignment, that I soon found a part time job working for a local dairy farmer.
Now I’m pretty old school and have my ways and opinions about dairy farming versus livestock producers and landowners who do the cash crops. The most rewarding and the hardest of course, in my opi.......read entire blog |
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