Here comes Isaac. They have had over a foot of rain in some places! Oh my, I feel for the cotton farmers. My dad farmed cotton. There is always a risk that you have a bumper crop and then, a dang hurricane comes and dumps all that rain on you and it really can hurt. I remember this happened just two or three years ago around here. The farmers lost a LOT of money due to the rain pulling the cotton out of the boll and also, degraded the qualify of whatever cotton didn't fall out onto the ground.

This happened to my dad in 1973. He had expanded his acreage to double what he had farmed for many years (because my brother graduated college and joined him) and they had a bumper crop but never got it out. Not only did it rain like crazy in the fall, it kept raining until May! Never seen anything like it. He was so desperate, he even picked (in May) and planted the same month! My dad never recovered from that year and he fought it for 20 more. Farming is very expensive and very risky. Even with irrigated crops these days, you still can't stop a hurricane!