Why Is This Happening? Unprecedented Flooding Has Hit The U.S. Within The Last 30 Days - Michael Snyder

Why Is This Happening? Unprecedented Flooding Has Hit The U.S. Within The Last 30 Days Posted: 25 Oct 2015   The Economic Collapse  Michael Snyder Over the past 30 days, major floods have hit the east coast, the west coast and now the middle part of the country.  So why is this happening?  Why is the U.S. being hit by so many catastrophic weather events all of a sudden?  During the past month flooding has caused billions of dollars in damage, and in many areas the clean up is going to take well into next year.  Some pundits are blaming El Nino, but others are pointing to other potential reasons for why this may be happening.  Let’s start by taking a look at some of the biggest flood events that have happened over the past 30 days… Hurricane Joaquin never made landfall on the east coast, but moisture from the storm had a tremendous impact – particularly in South Carolina.  In fact, the governor of the state said that the region had not seen that type of rain “in a thousand years”… “We haven’t had this level of rain in the low-country in a thousand years — that’s how big this is,” said South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Days of record rainfall and catastrophic flooding left at least seventeen people dead in South Carolina and two dead in North Carolina, Oct. 6, 2015. Thirteen dams have failed. It would be very difficult to overstate the amount of damage that was caused by this storm.  Some officials are estimating that the total amount of economic damage done “will probably be in the billions of dollars”… The rains may have stopped in South Carolina, but the danger and the work to rebuild are far from over.  “I believe that things will get worse before they get better,” Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin told reporters Monday. “Eventually the floods will abate, but then we have to access the damage, and I anticipate that damage will probably be in the billions of dollars, and we’re going to have to work to rebuild. Some peoples’ lives as they know them will never be the same,” he said. Of course this is far from the only destructive flooding event that we have seen in recent weeks. Out in California they have been getting hit with disaster after disaster.  First, the wildfire season came very close to setting a national record this year, and it was particularly bad out west.  The following comes from USA Today… The amount of land burned by wildfires in the U.S. this year has surpassed 9 million acres, according to data released Thursday by the National Interagency Fire Center. This is only the fourth time on record the country has reached the 9 million-acre mark, center spokesman Randall Eardley said in an e-mail. The area burned is roughly equivalent to the size of New Jersey and Connecticut combined. All of the top years for acres burned have occurred since 2000, Eardley said. The worst year occurred in 2006, with 9.8 million acres. In 2007 and 2012, 9.3 million acres were burned, he said. If another 800,000 acres are burned this year, an all-time record would be set. I have a feeling that when the final numbers are all in and tallied that 2015 will end up setting an all-time record for wildfires. But after a really dry, hot summer, southern California got surprised by a deluge of heavy rain this month and the results were absolutely catastrophic.  The following comes from Fox News… A flood of mud and debris triggered by heavy rainfall in Southern California rushed onto streets and highways Thursday, stranding hundreds in their cars and closing a major interstate.  Nearly 40 miles of Interstate 5 north in Los Angeles were still closed Friday afternoon after heavy rainfall sent mud, debris and even boulders streaming into the north-south running freeway, according to the California Department of Transportation. Some people, stuck in up to 5 feet of mud, were forced to camp overnight in their vehicles, according to NBC Los Angeles. Pictures on social media showed some cars submerged in debris up to the windshields. Authorities are still digging people out from this mess several days later.  In fact, the dead body of one man was just pulled out of a van that had been encased in several feet of mud… Southern California fire crews discovered a man’s body Tuesday inside a van that had been buried under several feet of mud after a flash flood overran a road near Los Angeles last week. And just over this past weekend, the middle part of the country has had to deal with tremendous flooding as well.  Hurricane Patricia turned out to be the world’s strongest hurricane since at least 1970, and the remnants of this storm are hitting the state of Texas quite hard. The small town of Powell, Texas got 20 inches of rain in just 30 hours, and a Union Pacific train that was running nearby was derailed by the heavy flood waters… A Union Pacific freight train carrying cement derailed in Navarro County after a creek overflowed, washing out the tracks. Locomotives and rail cars were pushed on their sides, and a two-person crew was forced to swim to safety. Repair teams cleared the derailed cars by Sunday morning, but they were not expected to be righted for several hours and a locomotive was not seen being moved until later in the day, Union Pacific spokesman Jeff DeGraff said on Sunday afternoon. All of this has happened within the past 30 days. So is there a reason why all of these events have happened? Of course some people say that it is just a coincidence that all of these storms have hit us in such close proximity. Others are pointing to the extremely strong El Nino that has developed.  Here is an excerpt from a recent Bloomberg report… It has choked Singapore with smoke, triggered Pacific typhoons and left Vietnamese coffee growers staring nervously at dwindling reservoirs. In Africa, cocoa farmers are blaming it for bad harvests, and in the Americas, it has Argentines bracing for lower milk production and Californians believing that rain will finally, mercifully fall.  El Nino is back and in a big way. Its effects are just beginning in much of the world — for the most part, it hasn’t really reached North America — and yet it’s already shaping up potentially as one of the three strongest El Nino patterns since record-keeping began in 1950. It will dominate weather’s many twists and turns through the end of this year and well into next. And it’s causing gyrations in everything from the price of Colombian coffee to the fate of cold-water fish. That certainly doesn’t sound promising for the months ahead. But some climate “experts” are really playing down the impact of El Nino.  Instead, they are attempting to convince us that what we are witnessing is simply the result of “man-made climate change”, and they are using this as an opportunity to promote their agenda. And there are yet others that see a spiritual dimension to all of this.  In fact, there are some out there that believe that all of this flooding could be a sign that the judgment of God on America has begun. So what do you think? Do you believe that there is a reason why the U.S. is experiencing so much flooding lately?

Rescue personnel stand near a victim who was killed in a terror attack in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem.16 people were wounded, six of them seriously when two terrorists armed with guns and knives boarded a bus and began a shooting and stabbing spree, October 13, 2015. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90

LIVE BLOG: Multiple Terror Attacks Hit Israel in Unprecedented Strikes Tuesday; Dozens Wounded, Several Dead

By Abra Forman October 13, 2015 , 9:40 am

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.” (Genesis 9:6)

The recent violence in Israel shows no signs of abating, with Palestinian terrorist attacks against Jews recorded throughout Jerusalem and the entire country every day for the past week.  Stay tuned to Breaking Israel News for live updates on today’s events.

06:55  Selfie Stick, Nunchucks Bring Down Terrorists

Social media reports indicate that a selfie stick, a popular gadget used to snap selfie photos, was used to take down a terrorist in Jerusalem on Tuesday. 

On Monday, an Israeli man is said to have subdued a terrorist carrying out an attack at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station with a pair of nunchucks. 

06:48  CNN Headline Blames Israel for Recent Terrorism

Anti-Israel media bias strikes again as the homepage of the CNN website published a misleading headline, insinuating Israel is the perpetrator behind the current wave of terrorism to strike the country. 

06:42  Kiryat Ata Attack Case of Mistaken Identity

The stabbing attack outside an IKEA in Kiryat Ata is reportedly a nationally motivated attack. An Israeli stabbed a second Israeli thinking he was an Arab. The Israeli stabber was arrested by police.

06:39  Terrorist Behind Armon Hanatziv Bus Attack Freed Hamas Prisoner

One of the terrorists behind Tuesday morning's bus attack in Armon Hanatziv is a known Hamas terrorist who was released from prison. 

06:08  Hundreds Riot at Gaza Border

Approximately 200 Arabs from Gaza are rioting at the Erez border crossing between Gaza and Israel, throwing stones and burning tires. Security forces closed the crossing in response to the violence.

06:04  Eilat Update: Shots Were Fired on Jordanian Side of Border

Police have confirmed that the shots were fired on the Jordanian side of the Eilat border crossing. No Israelis were injured.

05:54  Attacks Reported Near Eilat

A developing story is underway as reports come in of two incidents in Eilat, at Israel's southern tip on the border with Sinai. A car ran a checkpoint at one of the border terminals, and there are reports of a shooting attack at the border crossing into Jordan in the Rabin terminal.

05:49  Jerusalem Hospitals Receive Emergency Blood Units to Treat Terror Victims

According to Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency response service, the organization's Blood Services has supplied "214 blood units and components" to Jerusalem hospitals Shaare Zedek and Haddassah Ein Kerem. 

05:47  Kiryat Ata Attack: One Israeli Wounded

Preliminary reports on the stabbing in Kiryat Ata say that a single victim was lightly wounded and the terrorist arrested.

The attack took place near the city's IKEA branch. 

First responders and civilians were asked to clear the area as security forces searched for a possible bomb.

05:39  PHOTO: Bus Attack in Jerusalem

The Government Press Office of Israel has released this photo of emergency workers cleaning up the scene of this morning's Jerusalem mass casualty attack, which killed two.

05:36  DEVELOPING: Attack in Kiryat Ata

Reports are coming in of a stabbing attack in Kiryat Ata, a town near Haifa in the North of Israel. The terrorist is believed to have been apprehended by security forces. 

05:34  Hamas Claims Credit For Attacks

Hamas has claimed credit for this morning's violence in Jerusalem, saying that the simultaneous attacks were carried out by a single terror cell, rather than by individual "lone wolves."

05:25  New Photo from Scene of Car Ramming Attack

  (Credit: Hillel Maier/TPS)

05:20  Third Israeli Victim Succumbs to Wounds

Three Israelis are confirmed dead, victims of terror attacks carried out across Israel on Tuesday. Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor has called for "Operation Defensive Shield" to combat terrorism across the city.  

05:14  Israeli Security Minister Considers Closing East Jerusalem

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is considering, among other defense tactics, putting East Jerusalem on lockdown in response to the dramatic rise in terror attacks. Another possible measure under consideration is easing the restrictions on obtaining gun licenses for civilians.

05:01  Riots on Gaza Border

The IDF is fighting to control riots on the Gaza border as rioters attempt to breach the fence separating Gaza from Israel. IDF soldiers are using tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition to stop them.

04:51  Deputy Foreign Minister: Abbas Has Blood on Hands

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Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely stated on Twitter that PA President Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian leaders have "blood on their hands" for the recent wave of terror occuring in Israel. 

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