Drought, Fire, and the New Normal in the American West

Greetings,

Why is it that anytime we tell you of certain events you are quick to disbelieve and then you believe the devil’s outlets which come right behind us verifying exactly what we said, but only using coarse words to make you believe that it is something else? Is it that they have made you in such a way that you are turned away from blacks being able to tell another black something?

You are trapped in the anglo mindset and don’t really know it or accept it…”Our first parents who were brought here, he said, were killed after giving birth to their first babies to prevent them from teaching their children anything of self or of their God and people.

  This act of murdering our forefathers (by the slavemasters) left their children to be taught and reared in whatever pleased the slavemasters and we are from those children. That made us blind, deaf, and dumb to the knowledge of self or anyone else and it stands true today that the American so-called Negroes don’t know themselves or anyone else and the worst of all is that they don’t know that they don’t know themselves or others.”–pg.93(o.s.h.a.)

Now God comes, as predicted He would, to force a separation between you and your former slave masters. This is why your are seeing so many destructive forces of nature now in play all over America…” The prediction of the prophets, who wrote our future before we lived is now coming to pass. The slaves (or a foolish people, as they are referred to by Moses) are vexing the slave master. Today, as these prophecies are now being fulfilled, we are not surprised at the truth God gave to us through the mouths of His prophets coming to pass, as it was prophesied.

  The master must give up his slave and the slave must give up his master, regardless of his desire to remain with his master. It is the purpose of God, Himself to separate the two so that He can give the slave justice and equal chance for survival, as the slave master has been exercising power over the slave.

  America is being torn to pieces politically as Pharaoh’s political party was in the days when Jehovah went after the freedom in Israel.

  Egypt was plagued with droughts, great hail, storms, rain, and fire, according to the Psalms, running side-by-side (fire and water). These plagues now are visiting America from Almighty Allah (God).”–pg.105(tfoa)

 

Drought, Fire, and the New Normal in the American West

Early-season blazes reflect a drier landscape, but fall rains could bring hope.

The Stevens Creek Reservoir in Cupertino, California, was almost dry in March 2014.

Dennis Dimick

National Geographic

The wildfire season arrived early this week in southern California, at a time of the year when skies usually are covered in cooling clouds of gray.

But this spring, the skies have been more like ashen gray, and fire agencies have responded to nearly 1,400 fires this year—twice the typical number, a Cal Fire spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times. A New York Times report May 16 said fire season in the West is now 75 days longer each year than it was a decade ago.

At the root of the problem is the deep, three-year drought that continues to plague California, and warmer winter weather that shrinks the snowpack in the Cascade and Sierra Mountains—a recipe that increases likelihood of wildfires. Studies indicate that the number and size of Western fires is up, and scientists say this drought may be the start of a long-term trend, noting that other Western droughts during the past 1,000 years have been more severe and could repeat.

Firefighters drive through a burned-out area in the hills around San Marcos, California, on May 15, 2014.

 

California’s water supplies are short, many rivers are low, and forests are dry. Operators of the state’s network of of dams, reservoirs, and canals have cut back water deliveries to 5 percent of normal. Cities and farmers rely on this state water to supplement local supplies. California, with the nation’s largest agricultural economy, relies heavily on irrigation water for crops. The California Farm Water Coalition estimates that nearly 800,000 acres of farmland will be left fallow this year because of the lack of water. Farmers in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys are digging wells to keep some land in production, but this is depleting aquifers.

 

Drought Monitor, which updates national drought trends each week, reported on Thursday that half the area of the lower 48 United States is in drought, and it classified all of California as being in “severe to exceptional” drought. The state hasn’t been this dry in 14 years, according to USA Today.

Other states are short on water, too. Parts of Nevada and southern Oregon are in drought after a winter that was light on snow. Luckily the northern Rockies and Cascades received several late-season snowstorms, but snowmelt from those mountains flows into the Columbia and Missouri River systems. That will help hydropower and irrigation in the Northwest and northern Rockies but is of no value to those in California and the Southwest….more here

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