The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District sent out a great tweet Wednesday. For the first time in quite some time, the Mississippi River at the Vicksburg measuring point was below any flood stage.

They tempted fate. They mentioned the unmentionable.

And then … the skies opened up once again.

For the past few weeks, central Mississippi has faced wave after wave of storm systems, some more threatening than others.

Our smartphones ring more often with severe weather alerts than they do for actual phone calls.

We have seen flash flooding alerts almost weekly and enough hail to where we are all becoming familiar with measuring it based on our favorite sports ball; golf ball, baseball. God forbid we actually see a basketball.

While this weather is inconvenient for most of us and a scheduling nightmare for local school and youth sports organizations, just think of those who make their living in the outdoors.

Farming is an already difficult profession that has seen those who go into the profession fall in recent decades.

These men and women, these families, literally live and die based on the weather and what has been an amazingly wet spring cannot be any help to them.

What is worse is the chance for a wet spring followed by an unrelenting dry summer.

It is fine to hope and pray for good weather for your event, your golf outing or your child’s youth baseball game. That’s fair.

But, in the midst of that prayer, also include our area farmers. We rely so much on the work they do, the foods and materials they produce or the livestock they raise.

They need our prayers and a few months of good weather.