A Little of This, Some of That

This week Hurricane Maria, on the heels of Irma, struck the little island of Puerto Rico. Taking a direct hit of a category 4 storm has completely devastated this country. AS of this writing, no one knows if there are any causalities even though the storm made landfall four days ago. There is no power on the entire island. Fallen trees, branches, roofs and other debris litter the roads. Many places are completely isolated. Without electricity, which is estimated to take weeks or months to restore, there will be no food storage. Shortages will soon reach epidemic proportions. What water there is on the island is contaminated. No electricity to run the systems. No proper sewer systems. Homes have lost roofs, walls, floors and more. People are stuck at the shelters sleeping on cots or the floor and have no place to return to. Children have no homes or food. There is no power to cook anything. No refrigeration  means food will rot, adding to the cesspool of bacteria. A countr...

It is no secret that I am NOT a 45 supporter. If you are you may want to stop reading now. These last few months have been a series of natural disaters across the  United States. I was out in the western States earlier this summer. In June, we say field after field that had not been planted due to earlier flooding. Now many of those sames fields are burning. In fact, several states have been burning out of control all summer. Mainstream media has not been reporting on this and they should be. In Texas of course we have Harvey that has devastated Houston and the surrounding areas. It will be months and years before they fully recover. Now, as I write this, we await the landfall of Irma, a storm system that has already wiped out the island of Barbuda, disseminated the Caribbean before she turned toward Florida. ALL of Florida WILL BE IMPACTED. In addition to the direct impacts, these disasters will affect each and everyone of us. In the west and Texas, many of our produ...