my accounts related in any way to timber, forestry and construction are way down. the weather here much of the year has had a detrimental effect on timber harvests, which in turn has increased the cost of timber. in a down market, it's better for plywood and osb mills to temporarily halt production then to pay inflated prices due to the impossibility of logging. this will last months as the woods are so wet, and we don't see a change in the flooding for months.
defense on the other hand is growing, i've got several accounts that are growing rapidly--too bad tho that overall we're down. our production accts are suffering, but hospitals and schools are up. but not enough of the latter to offset the former. and then there's the fact that recent tornadoes put a huge hit on one of the universities. it's been one hell of a year down here. any potential road construction projects have been delayed due to the weather, and farmers down here are losing hundreds of millions of dollars due to record rain.
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