Source: Nathaniel Axtell, BLUE RIDGE NOW, 3/26/15

In 30 years of farming, Randy Edmundson had never seen anything like the summer of 2013.
More than 50 inches of rain fell in six months, flooding virtually all of the 110 acres that Edmundson had planted in the French Broad valley. When the waters receded, he was left with just 12 acres of tomatoes and peppers.

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