MEGA DISASTERS ARE INCREASING! JUDGEMENT FOR AMERICA IS COMING!

MEGA DISASTERS ARE INCREASING! JUDGEMENT FOR AMERICA IS COMING!
If you think we’re in an age of more extreme mega disasters, you’re right. The annual number of billion-dollar disasters in the United States, earthquakes, floods, fires, hurricanes and more, has tripled since the 1980s, from two to about six per year. And 2011 has increased seven fold from the 1980s with 14 separate $1 billion-plus weather events.
To give you more of a perspective on the upward spike we are seeing in billion dollar plus natural disasters since the 1980s, the years 1981, 1982, 1984 and 1987 had no billion dollar disasters. Losses from the 14 billion dollar plus U.S. natural disasters in 2011 topped $60 billion. The U.S. experienced 11 disasters each costing over a billion dollars in losses in 2012. Of these 11 events, seven were severe weather or tornado events, and two were related to hurricanes/post tropical cyclones.

The remaining two were the year-long drought and associated wildfires.

And one of these disasters alone is more costly than all 14 mega disasters in 2011. Hurricane Sandy, whose costs are estimated to be  60 -100 billion dollars. MORE:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/

It will take many more months to get the total costs of Hurricane Sandy confirmed.

Burned out houses that caught fire during Hurricane Sandy.

Hurricane Sandy Storm Surge.

Also 2012 is the year with another huge natural disaster, The Endless Drought Of 2012 which could come close to equaling Hurricane Sandy’s costs. Economic losses for these two events, Sandy and the year-long Drought, are the big drivers this year in terms of costs and are still being calculated. It will take months to develop a final reliable estimate for each. And the drought is still on going as this map shows going into March of 2013. It is clear that 2012 was a more expensive year for natural disasters than 2011. And nowhere in the world is the rising number of natural catastrophes more evident than in North America. In fact, the year is likely to rank as the second most expensive year for natural disaster losses since 1980, second only to 2005, when four hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina, made landfall along the Gulf coast.

  Those storms, along with other extreme events that year, caused $187.2bn in damage, when adjusted for inflation to 2012 dollars.

But 2012 could come very close to topping that record when all is tallied up. Click the link and watch the video.

MEGA DISASTERS ARE INCREASING! JUDGEMENT FOR AMERICA IS COMING!

Jeremiah 11:11 ” Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.”
When God found so much evil among them He therefore will bring evil upon them, the evil of punishment for the evil of sin; and there is no remedy, no relief: the decree has gone forth and the sentence will be executed. Just as God recognized Israel’s sinfulness, He is aware of when we rebel against Him, just as when a nation like America rebels against Him.

  God would would rather we repent as a nation than face judgement. But God will use judgement to help us learn to turn from our wicked ways and turn back to Him. And we can be assured of His love and compassion for us as a people and a nation with His disciplinary judgement. Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge” Brothers and sisters pray our nation turns from her wicked ways and turns back to God before He puts an end to our prideful arrogance and wicked ways.
Maranatha!

Arizona dust storms becoming more frequent say experts

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August 1, 2012 – ARIZONA - Once considered to be once-in-100-year events, giant dust storms are pounding the U.S. state of Arizona. In a summer of excessive heat and extreme drought, this is not good news. Since June, five dust storms have plagued Arizona’s famous valley area. On July 29, Phoenix looked more like Saharan Africa than the well-manicured American Southwest. A massive dust cloud, referred to as a haboob—an Arabic word meaning strong wind—blanketed the metropolitan area. The cloud was 2,000 feet tall and nearly 60 miles wide. Although not the largest dust storm to hit the area, tree limbs and power poles were snapped, causing 9,000 homes to lose power. The Sky Harbor Airport was shut down for 20 minutes. These huge dust storms form during the monsoon season that runs from June until the end of September. They are so destructive because of the fine dust particles that manage to permeate everywhere during the storm. According to experts, these storms are becoming more frequent. It is not just the big storms that pose problems. Phoenix experienced three dust storms in a row the last week of July—which is considered very rare. USA Today stated: “This means more deadly accidents, more harmful pollution and more health problems for people breathing in the irritating dust particles.” The potential health threats from the storms are far more serious than just breathing in irritating dust particles. The fine dust can carry a poisonous mix of fungi, heavy metals from pollution, fertilizers, stockyard fecal matter, chemicals and bacteria, which can cause cardiovascular disease, eye diseases and other illnesses, such as valley fever. Valley fever, caused by the Coccidioides fungus present in desert soil, can be fatal. Valley fever is contracted when desert soil is thrown into the air and breathed in. Arizona has 70 percent of the valley fever cases reported nationally. The cases of valley fever in Arizona were up by 36 percent in Arizona between 2010 and 2011. It was in July 2011 that the largest dust storm ever observed hit the Phoenix area. Medical experts believe that the advance of the huge dust storms in 2011 could be one of the causes for the increase in cases of valley fever. Other dangers associated with these dust storms are the traffic accidents that result from the blinding conditions of the blowing dust. Between the period of 2001 through 2005, dust storms caused 44 deaths in 2,323 traffic accidents in New Mexico and 15 deaths in 614 accidents in Arizona. Experts say that because of excessive heat and dry conditions, residents in Arizona’s valley area can expect more dust storms. –Trumpet

Study says western North America faces 21st Century ‘Mega-drought’

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July 31, 2012 – CLIMATE - The climate’s ‘new normal’ for most of the coming century will parallel the long-term drought that hit western North America from 2000 to 2004 – the most severe drought in 800 years – scientists report in a study published Sunday. “The severity and incidence of climatic extremes, including drought, have increased as a result of climate warming,” the researchers said, adding that these long-term trends are consistent with a 21st century ‘megadrought.’ Crops and forests died and river basins dried, but as bad as conditions were during the 2000-04 drought, in the future they may be seen as the good old days, a group of 10 researchers warned Sunday in the journal ‘Nature Geoscience.’ Climate models and precipitation projections indicate this period will be closer to the ‘wet end’ of a drier hydro-climate during the last half of the 21st century, the scientists said. “Climatic extremes such as this will cause more large-scale droughts and forest mortality, and the ability of vegetation to sequester carbon is going to decline,” said Beverly Law, a co-author of the study, professor of global change biology and terrestrial systems science at Oregon State University, and former science director of AmeriFlux, an ecosystem observation network. The 2000-04 drought had the effect of amplifying climate change as vegetation withered and could no longer take up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This drought cut carbon sequestration by an average of 51 percent in the western United States, Canada and Mexico, the scientists calculate, although some areas were hit much harder than others. As the plants died, they released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, with the effect of amplifying global warming. “During this drought, carbon sequestration from this region was reduced by half,” Law said. “That’s a huge drop. And if global carbon emissions don’t come down, the future will be even worse.” The effects are driven by human-caused increases in temperature, with associated lower soil moisture and decreased runoff in all major water basins of the western United States, researchers said in the study. It is not clear whether or not the current drought in the West and Midwest, now being called one of the worst since the Dust Bowl, is related to these same forces, Law said. This study did not address that, and there are some climate mechanisms in western North America that affect that region more than other parts of the country. But in the West, this multi-year drought was unlike anything seen in many centuries, based on tree ring data. The last two periods with drought events of similar severity were in the Middle Ages, from 977-981 and 1146-1151. -ENS

Just another day in Arizona: another day; another massive dust storm

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July 30, 2012 – ARIZONA – A second cloud of yellow in less than a week overwhelmed suburban Phoenix on Sunday, mixing with torrential rains and gusty winds that wreaked havoc on midday traffic in the area. The thick wall of dust, known as a haboob, which is Arabic for ‘strong wind,’ was seen making its way through the town of Laveen about eight miles southwest of downtown Phoenix. The greater Phoenix area and northwest and north central Pinal County were under a dust storm warning that expired at 7pm on Sunday. This comes just days after an enormous dust cloud measuring around 2,000 feet tall and almost 100km wide swept over the city, traveling at 35mph. The dust cut power to some 9,000 homes and caused disruptions at the local airport. Caused by Arizona’s monsoon season which begins in early June and runs through till the end of September, haboob’s only occur in Africa, the Middle East, Australia and Phoenix, Arizona. Known as the grand daddy of dust storms, the haboob is a rare event and is caused by loose dust being blown upwards in the absence of rain and collecting skywards where it is then propelled by another more distant thunderstorm brewing behind it. Despite some of the 1.5 million residents of Phoenix objecting to the term haboob being used, meteorologists in the city confirmed that they have been using the Arabic word to describe the massive dust storms for over 30 years. ‘I think what’s going on is that we’ve had a higher frequency of stronger dust storms over the last couple of years and the term has been in play much more because of that,’ said Ken Waters of the Phoenix National Weather Service office to KPHO. Blowing gusts of up to 50 mph at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, the haboob is destructive because of the fine dust particles that manage to permeate everywhere during the storm. –Daily Mail

Dust storms + drought = Dust Bowl 2.0: Arizona hit by back to back dust storms

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July 24, 2012 – PHOENIX — A dust storm, or haboob, enveloped the greater Phoenix area in a cloud of yellow-gray blowing dust on Saturday night. The dust storms are becoming more frequent. For the second time since Saturday, a dust storm muscled its way into the Valley, just in time for the afternoon commute. National Weather Service meteorologist Charlotte Dewey said the storm was moving northwest and was first spotted between Eloy and Tucson. The dust storm covered cities in the metropolitan Phoenix area such as Scottsdale, Gilbert, Mesa, Apache Junction, Santan Valley, Chandler, Casa Grande and downtown Phoenix. There were no official estimates of its size, but Dewey says spotters estimated it was around 2,000 feet tall. She says there were also reports of 35 mph wind gusts in the area, and a report of a 50 mph gust at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. Above are photos of the event from The Associated Press and our iWitness Weather contributors. –KPHO

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Furious Wildfire in Colorado Leaves Destruction in Its Wake – NYTimes.com

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June 28, 2012 - Furious Wildfires Rage On in Colorado and the West:  With wind and heat giving it new strength, the furious wildfire that has been burning in the foothills around Colorado’s second-largest city doubled in size by Wednesday, first roaring past containment lines and forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee, chased by billowing smoke, blowing ash and the fear that their homes might be burned to the ground.  Pictured above, wildfires in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The Waldo Canyon fire, though, remained the most worrisome, and Tuesday’s blowup sent residents scrambling — choking roads with traffic and briefly closing a section of Interstate 25. About 32,000 people have been evacuated, including from the United States Air Force Academy, which is set to welcome a new class of cadets this week. By Wednesday afternoon, heavy wind spit gusts of ash around the city.

The Colorado fires reflect the dire situation in many Western States as a long-standing drought continuous to manifest itself.  Your editor lives in the Southwestern United States.  Fires all across the west are an annual occurrence, however, this year they are particularly troublesome.  Click on the link below for the full story.

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Furious Wildfire in Colorado Leaves Destruction in Its Wake – NYTimes.com.