{"id":37690,"date":"2018-09-12T17:25:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37690"},"modified":"2018-09-12T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:25:16","slug":"a-life-changing-event-3-million-to-lose-power-hog-farmers-panic-as-hurricane-set-to-smash-into-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37690","title":{"rendered":"“A Life Changing Event”: 3 Million To Lose Power, Hog Farmers Panic As Hurricane Set To Smash Into Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“A Life Changing Event”: 3 Million To Lose Power, Hog Farmers Panic As Hurricane Set To Smash Into Coast<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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With Hurricane Florence barreling down on North Carolina, local industries – especially hog farmers –\u00a0are preparing for the worst. Meanwhile, millions are at risk of losing power as they brace for a historic weather event.<\/p>\n

According to David Fountain, Duke Energy\u2019s president for North Carolina, up to 3 million homes\u00a0 <\/a>and businesses are at risk of losing power as a result of the hurricane, which in a worst case scenario would come onshore at Wilmington, North Carolina and move through Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte.<\/p>\n

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Natural devastation aside, there is the crippling impact the storm will have on local businesses: one of the biggest industries in the storm’s path is hog farming. Hundreds of farms are in the direct path of the hurricane and are scrambling to prepare for its impact by stockpiling feed and moving their livestock, according to this Wall Street Journal article<\/a>. Preparations to manage millions of gallons of hog waste are also underway.<\/p>\n

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The worst case scenario for North Carolina, with its 2,100 hog farms and 9 million pigs and hogs, would be to cripple the local hog farming industry. The potential devastation for hog farmers would be a deja vu to what happened after Hurricane Floyd struck in 1999. The result was the destruction of many farms, including flooding, dead livestock and waste leaking into waterways.<\/p>\n

Preparations for the worst have been aided by a dry summer which has, in turn, kept waste lagoon levels low. Power is also of the essence, because farmers are at risk of losing livestock if their barns can\u2019t be ventilated.<\/p>\n

Still, some are optimistic: the CEO of the North Carolina\u00a0Pork Council, Andy Curliss, believes that farmers will be prepared this time around: “They\u2019ll deal with what\u2019s thrown at them,\u201d he told the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A Life Changing Event”: 3 Million To Lose Power, Hog Farmers Panic As Hurricane Set To Smash Into Coast With Hurricane Florence barreling down on North Carolina, local industries – especially hog farmers –\u00a0are preparing for the worst. Meanwhile, millions are at risk of losing power as they brace for a historic weather event. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21628,411,21583,9399,1575,4318],"class_list":["post-37690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-grid-power-loss","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-florence","tag-north-carolina","tag-power-loss","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37691,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37690\/revisions\/37691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}