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Strange Sounds<\/a> – June 23, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n First came the drought. Then, the floods. Now, the mice. Farmers in Australia are burning their own crops. They\u2019re desperate to escape an epic plague infesting their hay. The mice are invading homes. They\u2019re destroying crops. They even force the evacuation of prisons. They\u2019re chewing through appliances, sofas, cars \u2014 and livelihoods.<\/p>\n Colin Tink, 63, has been farming all his life and has never experienced a mouse plague like the one ravaging Australia\u2019s eastern grain belt. Nor a drought like the one that preceded it, which turned fertile crop areas into dust bowls.<\/p>\n When the rains finally came last year, Tink thought his fortunes were changing.<\/p>\n The rain led to bumper crops through the spring and summer months (September to March in the Southern Hemisphere). Silos are overflowing with grain. And barns are piled high with hay. Tink grew enough hay to feed his cattle for two years.<\/p>\n Then the mice arrived. Millions of them. There are so many that even a prison had to be evacuated!<\/p>\n The vermin burrow deep into his hay. What they don\u2019t eat is ruined anyway as their urine trickles down through the bales. The smell is acrid. It sticks in your nose and lingers on your clothes.<\/p>\n \u201cIt breaks your heart a bit,<\/em>\u201d Tink said. \u201cWe\u2019re back to square one.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n https:\/\/strangesounds.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strange Sounds – June 23, 2021 First came the drought. Then, the floods. Now, the mice. Farmers in Australia are burning their own crops. They\u2019re desperate to escape an epic plague infesting their hay. The mice are invading homes. They\u2019re destroying crops. They even force the evacuation of prisons. They\u2019re chewing through appliances, sofas, cars … Continue reading Apocalyptic mice plague ravages Australia: First came the drought. Then, the floods. Now, the mouse\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[269,15918,36,34,15920,557,15917,15919,42,4855],"class_list":["post-19900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-australia","tag-colin-tink","tag-disaster","tag-drought","tag-dust-bowls","tag-floods","tag-mice","tag-mouse-plague","tag-outbreak","tag-vermin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5aY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19902,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions\/19902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}