I don't know much about Ice Age Farmer, this is somewhat knew to me. I have seen a few of his predictions come to life, of late. Everyone is right a certain percentage of the time. He recently predicted that we will have a shortage of canned food due to the shortage of tin cans coming out of China. With this new development, it certainly cannot help matters, should this be true. May be a good time to get more, flats, jars, whatever you may need.
I have great empathy for the innocent people there that were just born in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am feeling somewhat the same for America right now...