Flooding from Hurricane Florence Threatens to Overwhelm Manure Lagoons
North Carolina, which is being drenched to unprecedented levels by
Hurricane Florence this week, is “
literally the cesspool of the United States,” Rick Dove, a senior adviser to the Waterkeeper Alliance, a nonprofit environmental group, told me. “You can’t describe it any other way. And flooding from this hurricane is making it even more obvious.”
“It’s been described in court proceedings as similar to the odor of dead bodies. It’s the worst smell in the world. It clings to your clothes. It burns your eyes, burns your nose and even your lips.
And these swine lagoons are built right in neighborhoods.”
“Most of those animals are gonna drown.”
“We have a very high concern that we’ll see lagoons and farms flooded further south,
distributing waste all over the place,
I better get my Thanksgiving Turkey early also. I heard there might be a turkey shortage because of the storm. And a ham of course.
how patriotic of you, thats a good way to poison your fellow american.