Just in case you’re not paying too much attention to Florence flooding the Carolinas…<\/p>\n
There are a log of hogs in North Carolina. It is hog heaven, in fact — I mean, until the hogs are slaughtered for meat. So the hog heaven is probably more for hog farmers than their hogs.<\/p>\n
Well, as with all good floods going back to Noah’s, a great cleansing of the earth is happening with Florence in the Carolinas. Floods tend to do that, I guess. They wash away whatever’s loose on the earth into the rivers and the sea. (I could also make reference to the last scene in G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung<\/em> [hope I landed those umlauts over the right vowels] but never mind.) And that great cleansing is washing over hog lagoons.<\/p>\n So here is Gail Collins on this situation:<\/a><\/p>\n Finally, we\u2019re getting to the moment \u2014 a high point in all stories about the environment in North Carolina \u2014 when we discuss the hog lagoons.<\/em><\/p>\n Hog lagoons are basically huge bodies of pig poop. The waste is treated with bacteria that turns it pink. I flew over one of these suckers, and if you ever want to experience what it feels like to soar above what appears to be a large lake of strange-smelling Pepto-Bismol, this is the ticket.<\/em><\/p>\n Why did I copy Gail into this post? Because it made me laugh for a second and oh boy do I need a second of laughter right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just in case you’re not paying too much attention to Florence flooding the Carolinas… There are a log of hogs in North Carolina. It is hog heaven, in fact — I mean, until the hogs are slaughtered for meat. So … Continue reading