"I warned you people! Now, it's not too late to buy my offsets!"
Posted on 05/24/2011 6:44:43 AM PDT by FourPeas
It’s definitely been a bad year severe weather-wise, but I wonder how much of the death toll is impacted by population growth in these areas.
I join in your earnest prayers!
Talk to the old timers who remember when most towns were half their size, and all the surrounding land was undeveloped farmland and not shopping malls and subdivisions.
There have always been bad years, people just never heard about most of them because they never got recorded.
Build a whole bunch more houses and buildings and you get more damage, simple. People seem to forget how much things have changed in the past 60 years and do the comparisons without that factored in.
And down here in west Texas and New Mexico, especially southern and southeast NM, we haven’t had rain of any consequence since September of last year, just dry dusty wind day after day after day. Usually by late May we have a hint of the summer monsoons. Not this year - they are predicting it will be mid to late June before they show up. Meanwhile along with the wind it just gets hotter...
This is what happens when you elect a leader who openly calls for the division and thus destruction of Israel. You do NOT mess with God’s plan and His plan is that Israel will NEVER be defeated. Those, such as the US, who advocate against them, will suffer tremendous destruction BECAUSE of their fight against Israel. God says He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel. Never before have we had such a Jew hater in the white house. America will pay for this awful decision to elect a guy whom we know nothing about. NOTHING. I believe if we did, he would be kicked out of office and impeached.
Thank you both.
I find loop maps like that extremely useful for determining weather and my activities.
You can have some of ours, if I could figure out some way to get it to you.
OTOH, the farmers in NY will have a bumper crop again if this keeps up, so it’s hard to complain in light of all the talk of food shortages.
We need it to dry out here for June so the farmers can get their hay in.
Yup. My grandmother could go on and on with stories of seeing twisters in rural Kansas. My great-grandfather had seen enough of them that he decided to dig and build (by hand, mind you) a bigger storm shelter when he was in his 80's.
Tornado alley seems to have shifted eastward, doesn't it?
Yesterday I heard that they now want to send the warnings to our cell phones. As bad as things were last month, I never want government warnings sent to my phone. Forget it. I know when to pay attention and when to take cover, as do most people in our state know to take spring storms seriously.
There were people here as hunkered down as they could be last month. Two in a closet sucked out, 1 lived, 1 died. A family in a bathroom, the sink fell on the mom and killed her, the rest survived. And I could go on. There are miraculous stories of survival too. When my time here is up, there is no warning on a cell phone that is going to save me.
Prayers up for those folks in the paths of these storms. I shake just thinking about it. I hope that I never see another day like April 27, 2011 again in my lifetime. The areas devasted will never look the same in my lifetime either. The scars will be there for a very long time.
Bookmark. Thanks.
Yes, it’s been this bad. It’s just been a while.
There were springs in my Texas childhood that we practically spent in the storm cellar.
I remember my mom picking us up early from school one day because it was so bad. Lots of times Dad woke us up in the middle of the night to take cover.
These things go in cycles. Many alive now don’t remember some of those 50s and 60s springs in tornado alley.
It’s probably the Dick Cheney Hurricane Machine. I bet Obama got his hands on that...
Heh heh.
OK, who gave Obama the key to Bush's Weather Machine?
I remember the year we were hit with the tornado in DeSoto/Lancaster (April of 1994). It was the beginning of a big outbreak also. These things happen. Some are worse than others. This one is particularly bad. And nowadays we have more media, more people, etc.
Of course, I joked that year that Tornado Ally was the ally behind our house.
I also recall the first year we moved to FL we had the awful hurricane year, the worst anyone could recall (remember we went thru the alphabet and had to start over?!) And then, things calmed down and we haven’t had anything like that since.
God knows His people. And there are plenty of people in this country who did not select or support the Resident pharoah. It is him and his followers who hate Israel.
We are not a united country, so you cannot lump us all into one category as deserving a removal of God’s protection. God has always reserved total judgement on the land for as long as there were the faithful still in it.
Mississippi and Alabama are red states with many Bible believing, God fearing, Israel loving people. What we saw here was the awesome power of what God can allow to happen, that everything we are and everything we have belongs to Him and is temporary, and what “the church” can do in a most expeditious way to help others desperately needing help, more so than waiting for a hand out from the godless.
Woe to this country when a rapture actually does occur.
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