Vast areas of the South are just starting to recover from a "Once in a generation storm" that has done about 100 billion dollars in total damage.
If you can't see the storm clouds that are rapidly approaching at this point, you must have your head in the sand.
Tonight, 45,000 dockworkers from a total of 36 different U.S. ports are scheduled to go on strike US ports from Maine to Texas could shut down Monday night if a union representing about 45,000 dockworkers carries through with a threatened strike.
The International Longshoremen’s Association is demanding a pay rise that works out at about 77 percent over six years. For union members on a typical rate, their wage would go from $81,120 to around $143,520.
Retail expert Neil Saunders of Global Data told DailyMail.om that the strike will cause two main problems – shoppers will face higher prices and empty shelves.
Of course this is happening at a time when the South has just been hit by a "Once in a generation" storm.
At this moment, millions of Americans that were hit by the storm are really, really hurting Short on supplies, power and patience, storm victims who saw the brutal force of Helene upend their lives have emerged to a new week, facing the daunting challenge of rebuilding.
We were warned that this storm would be "Unsurvivable" wherever it first came ashore, and that was most certainly the case in the small Florida town of Steinhatchee As Hurricane Helene pounded Florida's Gulf Coast this week it virtually wiped the small town of Steinhatchee "Off the map" with 10-foot waves and 140 mph winds.
Although the town was evacuated, the 500 people who saved their lives came back to homes and businesses destroyed by the Category 4 storm.
There were few buildings not blown away by the storms and the ones that survived total demolition were heavily damaged.
The human cost has been at least 45 dead. But what made this storm truly unique is that it continued to cause immense devastation hundreds of miles inland.
Will this storm have an impact on how residents of that state vote? So far, help from the federal government has been very slow to arrive, and people are not happy about that.
As Israeli forces go into Lebanon, what sort of chaos do you think we will see on college campuses all over the nation? My friends, a "Perfect storm" is here, and the month of October is only going to be just the beginning.
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