Something we will too soon over look as a community!

Last night there was a business that burnt down in a local town. This was a place my husband would frequently get basic parts from. To be honest I had only been there twice and many people in our community never had a need to enter the doors. 

As the wife of a man that worked as a mechanic in a dealership prior to starting his own business; I know those mechanics keep their tools at work. Last night the tools that each one has can be thousands of dollars easaly have more than likely been damaged, these men will now have to replace them before they can go back to work.

Photo by Ashley Athey

If you are a farmer this may have a different effect on you and that will lead to an effect on more of us. We would get tractor parts here on and off as they may have been the closest place to carry what we needed. This means a tired farmer that has been working 16 or more hour day getting seed in the ground may now have to get in his truck and drive an extra 40 mins after planting to the next closest dealer to get a part to be ready for morning. I know that Milbank was one of Titans smallest dealers but if I can get a part 15 mins away and still get my kids from school on an already crazy day in the field that makes a huge difference specially as custom harvesters. The simple thing like an O-ring that looks kind-of like a rubber band or rubber round bracelet for us not so mechanically inclined people. This simple part can cause an hour or so of down time to get apart and re install if you have an hour drive on top of that you're losing income. For our crop farmers if you lose a few hours of planting before a three day rain fall that just set that fields seed a week late to get in the ground possibly that can put you in the freeze watch timeline. With the drop in crop prices every hour counts before a good rain comes on both planting and harvest.

Still wondering what this has to do with you?

May be this doesn't affect everyone and non of our businesses do immediately affect everyone. Although in the long run if we keep losing our small town businesses locally the hour drive to Watertown or Monti for me will be more often and take away from our hope to build a strong community here. I was at the National day of prayer service this morning and in our area we may not have a lot to do with the nation changing but if we start here at home helping our neighbors. the people here wont have to look for our governments support we can do more for our nation than any of our political parties can. Please step up and support your local businesses. I have not chose to lessen my purchases at Target and Walmart just because they don't fallow my morals but because I am learning to shop local and pay more to make sure my neighbors can feed their family and live in a small town that we now call home. This is where God has asked us to stand up and give thanks for these guys that keep our local farmers tractors going please pray for those who don't have a building or tools to work with today. Pray for our small town businesses we need them. 
God Bless Our Nation!!

After having over 2000 views on this blog post my husband and I took a brake from our day and drove over to see it for our selves. My emotions got even stronger.  I started picturing the guys that I have seen when I walk in the store and their families I pondered what their day was like today.  The smell is still so strong for burning metal and fluids the place looks so lifeless.

I am thankful for this business and that it has a great plan in place for the guys that work there.

A great follow up video in this link

thevalleyexpress.com video fire & future Titan Machinery Milbank