Glenwood Union Church cemeteryI've been wondering what will the economic consequences be if the Iceland volcano keeps on heavily spewing ash over Europe for months or even years. I suppose the stuff is highly acidic and a layer on the ground over vast farmlands will cause all kinds of havoc. If it does continue like it is or worse, look for prices in the US to go out of sight as our domestic farm products go offshore. Most of our food production and distribution is controlled by three or four huge corporations, so you know there will be shortages here if the European Union is willing to pay through the nose for our food supply. I wonder if life will even be possible in a lot of areas affected by the ash; those type volcanoes have been known to erupt uninterrupted for two years. Some places with the most fallout could become completely sterile as far as farming goes.
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We had a small earthquake near Maryville early this morning. Maryville is a town about 100 miles SW my location. Minimal damage ... this time. Small quakes are not uncommon around the area; I've felt two in my lifetime. These mountains are rife with geologic faults of varying size and I can only imagine what would be unleashed if the New Madrid fault again moves like it did in 1811. That series of quakes didn't do a lot of damage around here, but there were few people and no real cities here then. It did cause the Mississippi river to change its direction in several places, even flowing northward at times as the ground rose and fell. Reelfoot Lake in west Tennessee was formed as a result of the events.
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The photo shows part of one of two of the cemeteries in the community where I was born and half-raised. Many of my kin are buried here including my mother and father.
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Tuesday's "T" word is tolerance; it takes a heap of it to tolerate the many changes in this world.
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Have a tolerable Tuesday!
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We had a small earthquake near Maryville early this morning. Maryville is a town about 100 miles SW my location. Minimal damage ... this time. Small quakes are not uncommon around the area; I've felt two in my lifetime. These mountains are rife with geologic faults of varying size and I can only imagine what would be unleashed if the New Madrid fault again moves like it did in 1811. That series of quakes didn't do a lot of damage around here, but there were few people and no real cities here then. It did cause the Mississippi river to change its direction in several places, even flowing northward at times as the ground rose and fell. Reelfoot Lake in west Tennessee was formed as a result of the events.
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The photo shows part of one of two of the cemeteries in the community where I was born and half-raised. Many of my kin are buried here including my mother and father.
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Tuesday's "T" word is tolerance; it takes a heap of it to tolerate the many changes in this world.
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Have a tolerable Tuesday!
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2 comments:
I am telling you mother nature is not happy and she is flesig her muscle.
An earthquake on the New Madrid could be very devastating as the area is quite unprepared.
Mom will bring balance even if she has to eliminate the cause of her problem; us.
A New Madrid quake would probably be more destructive than a San Andreas quake; no one or nothing in the east is prepared in any way for such an event.
Thanks, Mark
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