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I'm so tired. Maybe it's from shoveling the driveway or maybe it's from news of what's going on down south.
Up here everyone did panic buying and cleared the grocery stores, at least in the main city. We apparently have main supply routes coming in from the east over the mountains so we can expect to be resupplied pretty easily.
The lower mainland, which is down south, which is where the most chaos happened... it's hard right now. Almost the entirety of food grown in BC is produced down there, including the animals. Folks are mostly getting their dairy cattle to higher ground, swimming them out using boats. I think some chicken farms are pretty soggy but not drowned. Watering the animals is an issue since the water systems are shut down; everyone's trying to truck water in. There's... a lot of hay underwater. Grain isn't produced there so I suspect that'll be less of an issue, but the winter's stockpile of hay won't survive being flooded.
Dairy animals don't stop producing milk. They need to be milked daily to keep from getting ill, basically. Because of food and supply regulations around milk and the failure of the pasteurization plants, all that milk has been ordered to be poured into the manure piles. That's 100% of the local provincial supply, give or take a fraction of a decimal.
I'm not sure what this is going to do to my feed supply for the winter but I suspect it won't be good.
I probably need to stop reading about it all and take a day off work with an analog book in my bed.
Still trying to figure out if Josh will be able to come up here.
Also have some thoughts on wetlands these days. I really enjoyed the "nature is healing" weird photoshopped covid memes and honestly? I'd quite like a picture of the flood captioned "nature is healing". Wetland is the most frequently damaged ecosystem out there. Pretty much every bit of the tremendous marsh/estuary/shallow lake complex that was the fraser delta has been destroyed; it used to be a pretty significant stop on bird migrations that, much like the salmon migrations of the time, can't really fit into our modern concept of how abundant nature can be. Largescale wetland restoration will never be as popular as "save the old growth" campaigns though.
Anyhow, I'm disjointed and bitter today. Time to eat some borscht and maybe take a nap.
Up here everyone did panic buying and cleared the grocery stores, at least in the main city. We apparently have main supply routes coming in from the east over the mountains so we can expect to be resupplied pretty easily.
The lower mainland, which is down south, which is where the most chaos happened... it's hard right now. Almost the entirety of food grown in BC is produced down there, including the animals. Folks are mostly getting their dairy cattle to higher ground, swimming them out using boats. I think some chicken farms are pretty soggy but not drowned. Watering the animals is an issue since the water systems are shut down; everyone's trying to truck water in. There's... a lot of hay underwater. Grain isn't produced there so I suspect that'll be less of an issue, but the winter's stockpile of hay won't survive being flooded.
Dairy animals don't stop producing milk. They need to be milked daily to keep from getting ill, basically. Because of food and supply regulations around milk and the failure of the pasteurization plants, all that milk has been ordered to be poured into the manure piles. That's 100% of the local provincial supply, give or take a fraction of a decimal.
I'm not sure what this is going to do to my feed supply for the winter but I suspect it won't be good.
I probably need to stop reading about it all and take a day off work with an analog book in my bed.
Still trying to figure out if Josh will be able to come up here.
Also have some thoughts on wetlands these days. I really enjoyed the "nature is healing" weird photoshopped covid memes and honestly? I'd quite like a picture of the flood captioned "nature is healing". Wetland is the most frequently damaged ecosystem out there. Pretty much every bit of the tremendous marsh/estuary/shallow lake complex that was the fraser delta has been destroyed; it used to be a pretty significant stop on bird migrations that, much like the salmon migrations of the time, can't really fit into our modern concept of how abundant nature can be. Largescale wetland restoration will never be as popular as "save the old growth" campaigns though.
Anyhow, I'm disjointed and bitter today. Time to eat some borscht and maybe take a nap.
