(NTEB) “The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.” Revelation 8:7
Certainly it’s just coincidence that in the same month that President Obama formally declared that the policy of America would now be in favor of Gay Marriage that America’s Heartland began to dry up and begin to experience massive crop failure.
From NBC News: The drought ruining crops, shrinking water supplies and exacerbating wildfires intensified dramatically over the last week, U.S. forecasters reported Thursday. The weekly Drought Monitor shows “widespread intensification” in the central U.S., the National Drought Mitigation Center said in a statement.
States posting dramatic increases in just the last week included Illinois, which went from 8 percent in extreme/exceptional drought to 70 percent, and Nebraska, which went from 5 percent to 64 percent.
Across the contiguous U.S., the total area under all kinds of drought grew only slightly but the most severe categories — extreme and exceptional — rose from 13.5 percent to 20.5 percent — the highest level since 2003.
The jump “this week was the largest since we started the U.S. Drought Monitor” 12 years ago, Brian Fuchs, a climatologist and Drought Monitor author, told NBC News. “This is really showing the rapid intensification of the drought due to the heat/dryness over the region with little relief for anyone.”
“We’ve seen tremendous intensification of drought through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska, and into part of Wyoming and South Dakota in the last week,” Fuchs said in the center’s statement.
Every state had at least a small area categorized as “abnormally dry” or worse. “It’s such a broad footprint,” Fuchs said.
The Weather Channel noted the jump is the equivalent of adding 219,000 square miles to the worst drought categories — “an area slightly larger than the states of California and New York combined,” it noted.
