DROUGHT IN THE UNITED STATES

Because this nation has defied the counsel of the prophets of the Lord, we have begun to reap the judgments of God.  We enter into a time of drought, famine, monetary disaster, natural disaster, and general chaos.  If people will not listen to God's chosen servants, then they will receive preaching by thunder, by lightning, by EQ, by the heavens being closed (no rain - or general revelation) and my general mayhem.  God has set a moderating hand to this earth to calm the forces of nature.  When that moderating influence is removed because the people have rejected their God (not Him rejecting us.....), then that hand of moderation is removed and the people are left to themselves to kick against the pricks.  I have found the same thing among my loved ones.  When people de-couple from good values and choose to distance themselves from those values, it is they who have left the body, not the head distancing itself from the body.

So, through the school of hard knocks the disaffected will go with no rudder in the storm.  Once they no longer can point themselves into the waves of the troubles of life, capsize is imminent.  Return to base, or port, is no longer always possible, or easily possible.  Life becomes a burden and is difficult.  Instead of the burden being light and the yoke easy, difficulty lies ahead.  And so this nation must suffer for its insolence and spiritual slovenly practices and behaviors.

If this timeline I have talked about is going to happen, we MUST be in a drought in this nation by the end of the harvest season this year and into the spring wheat harvest season.

Here is some data a reader sent me from the NOAA, whose job it is to monitor the weather:

THE VAST MAJORITY OF RESERVOIRS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS ARE
SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN AT THIS TIME LAST YEAR. IN THE PAST 12
MONTHS...MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLIES HAVE DECLINED BY 15 TO 20 PERCENT
OF CONSERVATION VALUES. WATER USAGE AND EVAPORATION WILL REMAIN VERY
HIGH THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER MONTHS...FURTHER TAXING OUR WATER
RESOURCES. TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE...ZEBRA MUSSELS HAVE NOW BEEN FOUND
IN TWO MORE LAKES WITHIN THE TRINITY RIVER BASIN.

SUMMER IS A DRY SEASON BETWEEN THE RAINIER SPRING AND FALL. WITH NO
CURRENT PROSPECTS FOR A WET PATTERN THIS SUMMER...THE DROUGHT IS
LIKELY TO PERSIST OR WORSEN.

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SUMMARY OF IMPACTS...

AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS

DROUGHT...LATE SEASON FREEZES...AND HAIL DAMAGE HAVE ALL TAKEN THEIR
TOLL ON THE TEXAS WHEAT CROP. STATEWIDE...75 PERCENT OF THE CROP IS
RATED AS POOR OR VERY POOR...BUT NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS HAD
CONSIDERABLY BETTER YIELDS THAN MUCH OF THE REST OF THE STATE. THE
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE HAS ESTIMATED A NATIONWIDE YIELD OF
54 MILLION BUSHELS. DR. TRAVIS MILLER...AGRONOMIST FOR TEXAS A&M
AGRILIFE...BELIEVES THIS IS A BIT EXAGGERATED...BUT EVEN THAT WOULD
BE WELL BELOW THE 10-YEAR AVERAGE OF 90 TO 100 MILLION BUSHELS. AT
THIS TIME...ABOUT 57 PERCENT OF AMERICAN WHEAT HAS BEEN HARVESTED.

IN AREAS THAT RECEIVED SUFFICIENT SPRING RAINFALL...HAY HAS BEEN
ADEQUATE...AND WARM SEASON CROPS ARE GENERALLY IN GOOD CONDITION.
HOWEVER...RECENT DRYNESS IS BEGINNING TO STRESS VEGETATION. EVEN
SO...MOST TEXAS SOYBEANS AND MORE THAN 60 PERCENT OF CORN STATEWIDE
ARE STILL RATED AS GOOD OR EXCELLENT. UNFORTUNATELY...THE DROUGHT
HAS MEANT AN OVERABUNDANCE OF PESKY GRASSHOPPERS...WHOSE EGGS ARE
REDUCED BY FUNGUS WHEN THERE IS GREATER RAINFALL.

WEEDS HAVE BEEN A CONSIDERABLE NUISANCE FOR RANCHERS THIS YEAR. DR.
LARRY REDMON...STATE FORAGE SPECIALIST FOR TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE...HAS
POINTED OUT THAT MUCH OF THE GREEN GROWTH THIS SPRING WAS WEEDS NOT
GRASS. OUTCOMPETING DROUGHT-DAMAGED GRASSES...THESE WEEDS ARE
TYPICALLY OF LESSER NUTRITIONAL VALUE TO GRAZING LIVESTOCK. THE HEAT
AND LACK OF RAINFALL HAS KILLED OFF MANY OF THE WEEDS THAT FED ON
THE SHALLOW SOIL MOISTURE. THE REMAINING NON-DORMANT GROWTH IS
MOSTLY WEEDS WITH DEEPER ROOT SYSTEMS...WHICH ARE FURTHER DEPLETING
THE LIMITED SOIL MOISTURE.

CATTLE RANCHERS CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE WITH A REDUCED DEMAND FOR BEEF
AND THE RISING COSTS OF FUEL...FERTILIZER...AND FEED. THE CATTLE
POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES HAS DECLINED FOR 6 CONSECUTIVE YEARS
AND IS NOW LOWER THAN AT ANY POINT SINCE 1952. TEXAS STILL LEADS THE
NATION IN THE CATTLE INDUSTRY...THOUGH HERDS HAVE BEEN REDUCED BY 20
PERCENT SINCE 2011. THE CULLING HAS CONTINUED THIS YEAR...WITH THE
SLAUGHTER OF TEXAS CATTLE DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 2013 LIKELY THE
GREATEST NUMBER IN THE LAST 17 YEARS. THE TOTAL HEAD OF CATTLE IN
THE LONE STAR STATE IS AT ITS LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1967.