The floods in China are a global disaster

Over the last 50 years, I've flown the New York/Los Angeles route hundreds of times so I've witnessed the Great Plains farmland falling into disuse. It has been a sad journey across a vast and fertile plain that once filled me with awe at our productive power. We have the means to plant and grow all our country needs. Making this country self-sufficient is critical, asap for prescription drugs. This will be a focus of a second Trump Presidency. First the manufacturing had to return. Then farming. Then deregulating the producers of the country. With luck and providence combined, I believe Trump can make a significant leap away from the disasterous post- WWII ideal of global interdependency.

lots of what they call dams and we think of as levees. Those levees prevent flooding of bottoms where there were crops growing.

There are many engineering solutions for storing large amounts of excess rain, some cheaper than others. Los Angeles built the huge Santa Fe Dam which is a normally dry flood control dam, but later they dug large spreading grounds next to it where almost all excess water is now sent underground. The cheapest solution of all might be to breed beavers to build mini-dams all over, and encourage them by diverting the creeks around.

It appeared to me that the flood control guys knew what they were doing and were prepared to act.

Early on. as the water rose, they unfurled what seemed to be stiff red white and blue sheathing on the river side of the levee. As the river rose, the sheathing formed a barrier to protect the levee. As it rose to a certain level above the midline of the sheathing they brought in the big back hoes to breech the levee and allow flooding of the areas beyond. There were several videos of such breeches. The breeches prevented over topping and protected most of the levee from destruction.

The problem was that the rate of rainfall was greater than the levees could accommodate. They had 6 or 7 inches of rain in one day on more than one day. Some areas upstream of the three gorges are being described as historic marsh land. The levees protected this former lake/marsh land that was apparently drained for crops. It was a huge area. It is being described as the natural flood area that historically protected the populated areas down stream.

If OTHER COUNTRIES that normally buy from China now need to turn to the US to fill those food purchases, where will they need to turn now? Europe and the US. Therefore, pressure on our supplies of food which means inflation. That, added to the huge addition of US debt from all the CCPvirus bailouts, means we are already looking at inflation anyway, so this would be on top of it.

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