Midwest Aquatics and Exotics

The last two days have been really rough. We have had so much rain, that I am sick of rain. There has been a lot of flooding problems in the region. In Louisville they received 6+" of rain. Church Hill Downs was under water, loosing a lot of printed history. The track was also under water. Here we had flooded basements, and some roads under water. Some of the damage has not yet been realized quite yet. Many cash crops cannot handle so much water, and the crops are drowning in the soaked fields. Especially tobacco, which is a double edged sword. I am thankful that quite a bit of tobacco will never make it to market this year. On the other hand my heart goes out to the farmer trying to support a family. This should be a wake up call to those farmers to switch to a more stable, and useful crop. Many tobacco farmers have already made the switch to wine grapes. Many vineyards use to exist in this region, so many that this region was known as Cincinnati's Valley of the Rhine.