DROUGHT in the Southeast

[hoagster7]

About the drought in the Southeast. Talk about fear and anxiety. I live in NC. Raleigh has 100 days of water left! The drought here is horrible and people are actually planning for no water. Can you believe this?! Water is just as important for basic life as gasoline, even more important.

This area and Atlanta are preparing for the worst. I think mass evacuation in June is probable unless we get about 40 inches of rain. I believe that judgment has come to the Southeast. This is a clear sign that the Lord is not happy with this country, ironically the "Bible belt" is being hit hard. This natural disaster is on par with Katrina if we do not get massive rains to replenish. The government is totally ineffective, nobody is taking any leadership about this.

My pastor today prayed for rain for 5 mins before his sermon because we are so worried. It would shut down our city! He made the analogy that this drought is a symbol of peoples souls. I tend to agree, it seems like most people these days are completely barren and a wasteland. This drought feels like its scorching our land.

I bought a new home and am suppose to move in 5 weeks, I am thinking of backing out of the contract, lose my escrow money, and move somewhere else but I do not know where to go! The home I bought, if we do not get rain, will collapse in value! My job will most likely be eliminated.

I feel anxiety and fear but the Word overcomes all this, I have to just laugh at all this and just remember what Peter wrote..."cast ALL your anxieties on Him because He cares for you."

Does anyone on this message board live in the SE and are experiencing this? Is this a sign of Gods judgment? Pray for NC, SC, GA, and FL :pray

[Minori]

Praying now. Jeez, i hope you guys will be okay. That's really scary stuff!

[BamaM14Shooter]

I live near Mobile, which usually has the top rainfall in the US. We're getting more rain regularly than we've gotten over the past year or so, but it's still not what's normal to get here. Normally July and August are our top rainy months due to the heat generated afternoon showers, but the past two or three years we haven't gotten them every day like we normally do.
I agree that this might be God trying to get our attention. He used drought in the Bible to show His displeasure, so I'm inclined to believe that He is not happy with us.

[Caver]

I'm right beside you in Raleigh my friend. There are lots of us from the area on the RR board.

I drove over Falls River basin Saturday, where we get our water from. Its scary for sure.

Judgment?? I doubt it but don't know. We that are believers and born again have a different take on these things. We know all things are of God and not chance.

My advice, pray for discernment and direction.

Remember, with 100 days of water left it will take a long time to hit the panic stage. Longer than you have speculated, I suspect. Remember that that 100 days is if we get no rain for 100 days.

If we stay in the drought, chances are we will get....say...a good amount of rain during that time, even if it is significantly less than we are using. Its spring and the rainy season so lets say we stay in the drought and over the next 100 days and end up with only 80 days more water from rains. That would mean that in 100 days, we would still have 80% of what we now have. This is a moving scale. :preach

[yogi3939]

I live in Woodstock Georgia, a northwest suburb of Atlanta. Our main resevoir is Lake Lanier. It is so low on water that boat docks are completely out of the water. I moved here from the Chicago Illinois area in the spring of 2003. They had just come out of a five year drought here and the rain started back up with a vengence. I think we got the whole five years made up that summer. I have never seen so much rain in one place in my life.

But even then there was no talk of running out of water before the rains started again. Now the Georgia governor is blaming the Army Corp of Engineers for letting too much water out of our resevoir for downstream communities so a few endangered mussels won't die off. The Corp of Engineers also let way too much water out of the resevoir earlier in the year by accidentally leaving the spill gates open too long and lowering the lake level by several inches before the drought was even a problem.

We have gotten some rain recently that will help extend the time left on our water supply but it won't be enough to help in the long term if we don't get more soon. In the meantime everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else about mismanagement of the water supply.

Some businesses have already been affected. Car washes that don't recycle their water have been closed down. Landscapers and nurseries have lost at least half of their business because of outdoor water use bans. Right now in most of the Atlanta area communities you can get your water turned off by the utility and have to pay a stiff fine to get it turned back on if you get caught even turning an outdoor faucet on.

There are some alternate sources like wells, but if the resevoirs run dry they won't be enough. The local counties and cities are already talking about things like the "potty Police" checking homes for low flow fixtures and fining people who haven't installed them. Or raising the cost of water so ridicously high that people won't be able to afford to waste it. Then they are talking about tacking on even worse surcharges for people who do use over the new limits they will set

As to whether God is mad at the southeast or America as a whole; well I don't think he is that tightly focused. If you look at what is going on in world news you will find that weather patterns are shifting all over the world. If that is God's judgement then he is mad at the whole world.

Global warming is causing a lot of things to go haywire and will cause more to happen in the future. The earths weather is what is called a chaotic system. If you pump energy into a chaotic system you get even more chaos in that system. The enregy is never distributed evenly and in fact causes more uneveness in the system as energy is added. I don't believe that global warming is so much God's wrath as it is part of the end times events predicted by the bible to happen in the last days.

If it keeps getting worse so will the weather patterns. When huricane Katrina hit the gulf coast the weather people were referring to it as a catagory 5-1/2. The scale only goes to 5, but what will we do when the huricanes get so bad that they have to add a number or two to the scale. Can you imagine what will happen if a catagory 6 or 7 huricane hits the gulf coast or the eastern seaboard.

As to global warming itself; I see that almost everybody in the scientific community is accepting it as fact now and the only arguments left are about who or what is causing it and whether or not we can do anything to stop it or not.

The latest I have seen on the cause of global warming points to a shift in the spectrum of the sun's output that is causing it to better penetrate the atmosphere and warm the land and water surfaces more than normal.

But back to the idea of the drought being God's wrath. Like I said, it looks more like the endtime events coming to pass than it looks like a specific case of His wrath. In fact the weather is only one of the lesser travails we face as the end times progress. When the end time judgements start happening in earnest those left behind are in for a wild ride.

[MixedNuts]

Lord Jesus, please send rain to the Southeast. We know there is nothing that escapes your notice, so we ask Lord, send the rain, a nice, slow, steady rain to fill up the basins and areas of need in these areas of the Southeast we pray in Your Holy Name amen.

[tygerkittn]

We're near Atlanta, and what gets me is that they were banning swimming pools until some politician whose daughter is on a swim team started lobbying, now it's OK to top off swimming pools. They're also easing up on outdoor watering, in response to landscaper's lobbies.
And this was after we lost the court case to try and keep from releasing so much water downstream.

[yogi3939]

We're near Atlanta, and what gets me is that they were banning swimming pools until some politician whose daughter is on a swim team started lobbying, now it's OK to top off swimming pools. They're also easing up on outdoor watering, in response to landscaper's lobbies.
And this was after we lost the court case to try and keep from releasing so much water downstream.

This is being made such a complex issue by the politicians that it would take writing an online book an posting it here to cover all the problems and the insanity resulting from them.

[zhan]

Just more proof that when politics are involved, money is *all* that matters.

[run2Jesus]

Hoagster, don't forget us hillbillies over here in Tennessee.:aha We need your prayers too. For many months we have been praying for enough rain to get us out of the exceptional drought level. Like so many around us, our well went dry this past summer. It is such a helpless feeling to turn your faucet on to only hear bursts of noisy air come out. We have prayed as well as our local churches. Grocery stores have large bins in the front of the store where people buy bottled water and then donate to the less fortunate. After much prayer, our well has returned but we have more or less just a trickle. We have to ration ( re-use bath water, limited dish washing, laundering, etc.) These are challenges but they are good for the soul. Remember "ALL things work together for the good of them that love God.." He is well aware of our circumstances but He is also ABLE and willing to supply. We might oftentimes have to work a little harder for something but God loves to see our total reliance on Him for all our earthly as well as eternal provisions. Please don't feel like we are being punished. Remember Rev. 3:10. We are the precious Bride of Christ and He shall lovingly sustain us until that day when we shall be with Him in Glory. We'll make it through this drought. We've got Jesus!