Posted on 07/16/2012 10:01:00 AM PDT by blam
Not unlikely, but I must have missed the explanation for that statement in the article...
Don’t forget the blizzards of 1881, where it basically snowed every day for 7 months.
“You ought to be out here in west Texas WMR”
I’ve been everywhere in the Lone star state,
and I know how blistering hot and dry any part can be on any given year.
Last year it was hotter than blue blazes!
Everyone sold their cattle. This year, central TX feels like early spring. We had FOG, yes FOG with heavy dew on Friday, July 13th 2012. That was very strange, visibility was 1/4 mile or less at 7:00am.
Now next month it could be blow torch inferno! (and probably will be);-)
Meanwhile, in East Tennessee we are having monsoon like rains. I would guess at least 6-8 “ in the last two weeks.
Every afternoon, the thunder rolls and drops a deluge lasting half an hour.
Sometime in the night it happens all over.
The nearly dried up fields of tobacco are showing new life and springing from the ground. The brown grass is green and lush and in need of mowing.
The author of this piece is clueless.
/johnny
Yup, middle of July and may hit 90 today. We’ve had over 5” of rain this month and a chance for more later. Some places NW of downtown Austin had over 8” yesterday. Too bad that was not in the hill country to fill up the lakes.
Lake Whitney on the Brazos is full. They generate electricity from that lake and they are running full power!!!
Last summer Lake Whitney was the lowest I’ve ever seen it, but it was refilled by just two rain occurrences this year. The Brazos has a very large catch basin, from the base of the high plains out towards Lubbock through the plains north of Abilene into central TX. Lots of groundwater runoff goes into the Brazos.
I don’t know if this is worse than the dust bowl. But, recall that he dust bowl was a drought compounded by poor land magement—so it would make the event worse than it should have been.
Lake Travis is sitting at near record low for July.
http://www.lcra.org/water/conditions/lake.html
Travis - Jul 16 2012 - 4:30PM - 640.15
That is about 40 feet from full pool level as 681 is considered full.
So God is no more angry now over abortion and gay marriage than He was 100 years ago?
I respectfully disagree. The Bible clearly states that God will not tolerate a nation’s sin forever.
Curious that you attacked me alone and have nothing to say to the other posters who agree with me. As a 60 something grandmother of 6 I’ve never been called a “barbarian” before.
Don’t worry. Obama is delegating control of the United States water resources to the United Nations. The rest of the world will step up and share their water with us.
Typically in Indiana irrigation is not used.
Then again, we haven’t had this type of drought since 1988.
“drought since 1988”
I lived in Minnesota back then and the drought started in 1987 through 1988.
The lakes, rivers and watershed were extremely low and hydrologists claimed it would take a decade for normalicy to return....by the middle of the summer of 1989, everything was not only normal but above normal.
Folks, this IS natural variability. This is Not YET remotely anything to do with the Lord’s judgement.
Signs of the time have not come to complete fruition.
There is not a world Mideast peace treaty yet.
http://futurehistory.yadayahweh.com/
If this is anything whatsoever, it is the start of the Lord taking the crafty in their own craftiness.
Paganism, i.e. AGW, is attempting, with the help of the media, to gather world governance with this lie.
If weather (not climate) is an indicator of God’s final judgment, then it began in the 1930’s. Or, the Little Ice Age, or the Medieval Warm Period, or......etc.
Weather has always been one of God’s ways to get the nations attention.
Let’s not jump to hysteria over this article.....there will be a clear difference when the seals are broken and the trumps trumpeted.
Interesting.
I sure do remember the drought of the late 80s. It was more than one year though. More like 4 years long if I remember. This one is not as bad as that one was. I was living in eastern nebraska then and in ‘88 and ‘89 we were having daily highs of 102-108 degrees for 2 weeks or more straight in july. I was young enough then that I thought it felt good. It seemed invigorating, like a shot of adrenaline. It sure doesn’t have that effect on me now. All it does to me now is slow me down and make me drag the next day like a hangover.
I remember the weekends at mid afternoon the world was deserted back then in july/august during the drought. People did not leave their houses. Traffic lights failed due to the heat. Anyone remember those days? When the traffic lights would malfunction if it got too hot outside? How about the cars in parking lots would have their horns go on by themselves if the interior of the car got too hot?
Anyway, I was driving an old car that would overheat if it got above 70 degrees outside. I had to keep the drive short, not stop, and run the heater on full blast to help cool the engine. So here I am going 25mph through town running all the red lights and stop signs and just trying to make it to my destination before the radiator starts boiling over. It’s 105 or so degrees outside and about 120-130 inside my car due to the heater being on. There were no other cars on the streets because of the heat. Half the the traffic lights didn’t work anyway. I carried 6 one gallon milk jugs in the car full of water for when the radiator boiled over.
Ahhh, those were the days!
Well you took matters into your own hands and succeeded.
Today if their car overheats they probably call FEMA and wait for a check.
Remember the old trick of using a woman’s panty hose to get by if a fan belt broke? REmember keeping spare “flex” hoses in your trunk to replace a radiator hose if it burst? Hell, remember when radiator hoses used to burst? I can’t remember the last time I even heard of a radiator hose bursting much less having it happen to me.
That old car of mine boiled over so often I became an expert at removing the radiator cap while hot without getting burnt. I used to do that as a “parlor trick” just for kicks. I don’t think anyone else anywhere in the world was ever able to do that. It was something to see. I could pull that cap off bare handed and get back from the resulting scalding geyser without so much as a drop touching me. My technique was to not grab the cap. I let it fly on its own and then retrieved it later. It was a lightning quick “slap” on the top of the cap with a twisting motion. I couldn’t do it on anyone else’s car. Only mine. You had to have a radiator cap that was removed frequently enough that it came off super easy...which is exactly what mine was.
Isn't it obvious. It's the fault of the Koch brothers.
In Australia it's possible for kids to first learn about "rain" when they go to school.
There is a place in Chile where they say it hasn't rained in 300 years.
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