California Farmers: "We've Lost Everything!"

 Following years of draught in California, the state is now being hit by floods, the likes of which have never been seen.  This could be a serious problem for all Americans when one realizes how much of our edible foods comes from there.  It's possible that the rising prices of food we have seen in the past year could get much, much worse if these headlines play out as bad as they sound.

Now, with recent historical and unprecedented flooding, many farmers in California are reporting that they have “lost everything.”

And it is not over yet, as the rains continue, and record amounts of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains still need to melt, which will flow into farmlands that are already devastated in California’s Central Valley.

The emphasis today is still on saving people’s lives as the rain and flooding continue, and nobody knows yet what the final damages will be to America’s richest farmlands and how that will impact food security in the United States, and the nation’s already fragile economy. Almost half of California’s agricultural products are exported to other countries.

Tulare County in Central California is the county that is suffering the most, and it is also the second largest county in the U.S. in terms of food production, producing over $8 BILLION annually, with sales of dairy products making up almost one fourth of those sales, followed by citrus and nuts. (Source.)

Kern County, just to the south of Tulare County, is the nation’s #1 county in agricultural production, and Fresno County, just to the north of Tulare County, is the nation’s 3rd largest producer of agriculture, and both of those counties have also seen devastating floods in the Central Valley of California.

Monterey County on the Central Coast of California, is the 4th largest county in the U.S. in terms of agriculture production, and they too have been hit with devastating floods, wiping out most of the vegetable and strawberry farms.

I have put together a video report that is just under 15 minutes. I have friends and family members who live in Tulare County, so I can confirm from first hand experiences that none of this is exaggerated. It is real.

Here;  California Farmers: “We’ve Lost EVERYTHING” – $BILLIONS of Food Lost in Floods in State that Produces Half of America’s Agriculture (healthimpactnews.com)

It does make one wonder if the protective hand of God on this nation is being lifted.  As I read in the book of Judges today, Israel had a long history of turning from God only to have some neighboring nation put them into bondage and slavery.  After some amount of years they would cry out to God and he would send a judge who would acquire super-natural ability to lead the people out of bondage and destroy their oppressors.

Will America cry out to God when things get really bad here?  The Bible says that in the very last days that men will curse God all the louder...so I'm not holding my breath that America is going to turn away from all of the godless practices that have engulfed us in these past decades.