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Thursday June 7, 2012 Ponchatoula, LA (Current Conditions)

from thunderstorms that dumped around 1 1/2- 2 inches of rain on our 6 foot tall corn.

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1. kristinarinell 5:51 PM GMT on June 08, 2012
I'm so sorry, Charlotte! what a waste of all the hard work, can you save some of it? Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: November 21, 2009 Comments: 17195

2. StitcherGary 5:52 PM GMT on June 08, 2012
That's terrible..That must have been heavy rain. Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: December 16, 2007 Comments: 869

3. llpj04 6:20 PM GMT on June 08, 2012
Thanks Kristina, Gary. It was strong winds along with the heavy rains. In the 13 years of growing corn this is the worst damage we have had.It is so boggy out there right now that it is hard to walk. If you wait until the ground is a little dryer the corn sets crooked and breaks off when you try to pull it up. Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: July 10, 2010 Comments: 15757

4. Willow13 6:24 PM GMT on June 08, 2012
This happens to our very small corn patch every year. Fortunately, we are able to stand all the corn up and it does just fine. Yours looks so beautifully healthy. I hope you can save it! Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: September 16, 2003 Comments: 15290

5. katy99780 6:39 PM GMT on June 08, 2012
Oh geez Charlotte, you have worked so hard, and Mother Nature dashed it all. I hope you can do as Willow13 says, and save these plants, IF you can get to them in your boggy ground.... maybe you could lay a plank out and walk on that... Mother Nature is Boss and sometimes she's BOSSY! :( Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: October 3, 2005 Comments: 20021

6. gilg72 7:52 PM GMT on June 08, 2012
OMG! Charlotte so sorry to see this happening to you, or to anyone else for that matter. Hope you can manage to stand it up and at least salvage a good part of it. Keep our fingers crossed. Great photos of this disaster. Congrats on VIP. Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: June 5, 2010 Comments: 36626

7. RenoSoHill 8:44 PM GMT on June 08, 2012
Hope you had crop insurance like the farmers do! Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: December 12, 2009 Comments: 15186

8. llpj04 9:46 PM GMT on June 08, 2012
Thanks Dorothy, Katy, Gil & Duane. Rod got out there & picked a few rows back up. Katy he has done the work on the corn field. Those rows are about 100 ft long & there is about 10 rows. He said that the ground is so sticky it is hard to get the dirt back up around the base of the stalk. We just got another hard shower so who knows if the 4 rows are still up. No Duane no crop insurance. lol Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: July 10, 2010 Comments: 15757

9. Kennebunker 11:32 PM GMT on June 08, 2012
Oh dear, Charlotte. What a disappointment! Those stalks look so healthy - do you suppose they might simply start from whence they lie, and turn toward the sky? Would look kind of funny, but they might set ears! Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: July 16, 2009 Comments: 23044

10. LindyLu60 6:59 AM GMT on June 09, 2012
great comments on this photo.. sorry for all the loss and damage Charlotte! Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: October 6, 2010 Comments: 6741

11. llpj04 1:50 PM GMT on June 09, 2012
Thanks Wilma & Linda. Don't know how it is doing today. We got 2.69 inches of rain on the 7th, 2.14 inches the 8th, & 2-3 inches in the last hour today. Until Wed we are expected to have rain everyday from 20% to 80% so even if tried to stand up the bog is gonna kill the roots. Squash, beans, cucumbers & tomatoes survived the wind but won't survive this rain. Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: July 10, 2010 Comments: 15757

12. suzi46 2:47 AM GMT on June 10, 2012
~~~sigh~~~ it IS so discouraging to put so much work into something just to have it beaten down in a single act of Nature..so sorry Charlotte! Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: February 20, 2008 Comments: 9611

13. gusbuster 4:26 AM GMT on June 10, 2012
Sorry, bummer, what can you do. Start over, more work, more sweat, more time, hanging tough sometimes just is not fun. :-( Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: May 18, 2007 Comments: 8848

14. Suzell 1:13 PM GMT on June 10, 2012
That's heart breaking to see the damage. Perhaps you could string wires like we do here for vineyards. You would only need one wire strung on a row just for support with a single loose tie :-) Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: November 18, 2006 Comments: 61

15. got2dogs 9:32 PM GMT on June 10, 2012
oh my, so much work just to be 'swamped' by mother nature.......I applaud you for your efforts tho'!!! Action: \| Ignore User Member Since: December 23, 2008 Comments: 21166

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