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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 402794" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>SIL1 was saying this morning, we've lost almost all the Aussie beetroot crop. A lot of food produce has been lost, so there will be fairly major flow-on for our economy. We escaped the worst of the GFC, but it seems we are heading for worse trouble economically and food-wise. We've been seeing it already - man goes are usually no more than $1 at this time of the year, but the cheapest I've seen since the Qld floods has been $9 each. Quantities are down, they're talking about importing fruit from China; quarantine are screaming blue murder, say it could permanently kill our food industry if any imported disease gets out. And the quarantine controls in Asia are not up to the standard we need for such a vulnerable ecosystem. ONly NZ is more vulnerable.</p><p></p><p>The people - they're getting back on with their lives. The roads north are choked with tradesmen and volunteers driving north to help clean up. easy child mentioned s friend of hers who is one of that number - her husband just left her, she is still young, her friends are looking for a p/t job for her for 6 months in Qld so she can earn enough to live on while she is volunteering.</p><p>My brother's family farm survived without getting washed out. My nephew is on the top of a hill anyway, but has friends who got very wet. My sister also has friends in trouble, but they themselves came through. I haven't checked how her crops managed in the wet, they could lose some of the produce.</p><p></p><p>The people - individually, there will be a lot of PTSD but I know there will be community-level counselling in place, similar to what was put in place for our community after the really bad fires when difficult child 3 was born. You see whole towns go down with PTSD - it will start in the next couple of months, I'm betting. I'm glad the Federal government is involved, backing up the Qld government. They will make sure the services are not only in place, but used. They'll link it in with our national medical health scheme, so GPs will be ordering people to the tdocs put in place.</p><p></p><p>Recovery is going to take a few years, but if you go back there in six months, you would see a beautiful place with little sign of the damage. Outwardly.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for caring about our corner of the world.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 402794, member: 1991"] SIL1 was saying this morning, we've lost almost all the Aussie beetroot crop. A lot of food produce has been lost, so there will be fairly major flow-on for our economy. We escaped the worst of the GFC, but it seems we are heading for worse trouble economically and food-wise. We've been seeing it already - man goes are usually no more than $1 at this time of the year, but the cheapest I've seen since the Qld floods has been $9 each. Quantities are down, they're talking about importing fruit from China; quarantine are screaming blue murder, say it could permanently kill our food industry if any imported disease gets out. And the quarantine controls in Asia are not up to the standard we need for such a vulnerable ecosystem. ONly NZ is more vulnerable. The people - they're getting back on with their lives. The roads north are choked with tradesmen and volunteers driving north to help clean up. easy child mentioned s friend of hers who is one of that number - her husband just left her, she is still young, her friends are looking for a p/t job for her for 6 months in Qld so she can earn enough to live on while she is volunteering. My brother's family farm survived without getting washed out. My nephew is on the top of a hill anyway, but has friends who got very wet. My sister also has friends in trouble, but they themselves came through. I haven't checked how her crops managed in the wet, they could lose some of the produce. The people - individually, there will be a lot of PTSD but I know there will be community-level counselling in place, similar to what was put in place for our community after the really bad fires when difficult child 3 was born. You see whole towns go down with PTSD - it will start in the next couple of months, I'm betting. I'm glad the Federal government is involved, backing up the Qld government. They will make sure the services are not only in place, but used. They'll link it in with our national medical health scheme, so GPs will be ordering people to the tdocs put in place. Recovery is going to take a few years, but if you go back there in six months, you would see a beautiful place with little sign of the damage. Outwardly. Thanks for caring about our corner of the world. Marg [/QUOTE]
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