Hurricane Sandy Could Impact Mid-Michigan Agriculture - WLNS TV 6 Lansing - Jackson | Your Local News Leader

Potential heavy rain and high winds from Hurricane Sandy could be devasting to homeowners and businesses along the east coast, but Lansing financial advisor Ted feight says---that's not all.

"The first thing I see is I think it can change the election, because you're going to have some unemployment on the east coast and when that happens, it's going to change the national unemployment," said Feight.

Also slowing down our gross domestic product, something Feight says people could fault President Obama for and not the hurricane.

Closer to home, Feight says Hurricane Sandy could take a real toll on agriculture for many across the mid-west.

"We could have just a dump of water on all our farmers fields, and if the farmers are not ready for that, if they haven't gotten their fields ready or they haven't got their crops out, we could have a real problem with that," Feight said. "We could find a shortage in Michigan, because we can load up the stuff in the stores here and ship it out to the east coast, quite rapidly, it could be there in 12 hours."