Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
The sore beset people of this land may be good and goddam sick of politics, RussiaGate, and Trump-inspired social strife, but they may soon have something more down-to-earth to worry about: Biblical floods and plagues.
Media hysteria around the Mueller Report has nearly eclipsed news of historic flooding in the midwest that has already caused $3 billion in damage to farms, homes, livestock, and infrastructure. With spring rainfall already at 200 percent of normal levels, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a statement in late March saying, “This is shaping up to be a potentially unprecedented flood season, with more than 200 million people at risk for flooding in their communities.”
More to the point, two major western dams show disturbing signs of potential failure that may bring on unprecedented disasters. The Oroville Dam on the Feather River north of Sacramento — the highest earthen dam in the US — nearly blew out in February 2017 when record rains damaged the main spillway, threatening to send a 30-foot wall of water downstream towards California’s capital and towns along the way. When that spillway was closed to assess the damage, which was significant, the secondary emergency spillway was opened for the first time since the dam was built in 1968. It too started disintegrating and before long Lake Oroville began flowing over the top of the dam itself. The state had to order evacuation of 188,000 people in three counties. Frantic efforts to drop sandbags from helicopters stabilized the damage and, luckily, the rain stopped.
Subsequent lawsuits against the state’s Department of Water Resources revealed shoddy maintenance, theft of equipment, and poor record keeping. Now, two years later, new cracks have appeared in the repaired Oroville Dam main spillway. The Sierra Nevada snowpack stands at 153 percent above average, and the National Weather Service predicts that weak El Nino conditions with above-average Pacific Ocean temperatures are likely to produce above-average rainfall this spring along with the snowpack melt.
The Fort Peck Dam on the upper Missouri River in Montana is likewise troubling experts watching a record snowpack in the Rocky Mountains. It too is an earthen dam — the world’s largest by volume — filled with hydraulic slurry. Because it is located on the flat high plains, the dam is extremely long, running 21,000 feet — about four miles — from end to end. Behind it is a reservoir that is the fifth-largest man-made lake in the nation.
Concern is rising because the coming snow melt coincides with unusually active seismic activity around the Yellowstone Caldera, one of the world’s super-volcanos. The slurry construction of the dam inclines it to liquification when the ground shakes. Failure of the Fort Peck dam would send the equivalent of a whole year’s flow of the Missouri River downstream in one release that could potentially wash away the other five downstream dams in the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System, along with every bridge from Montana to St. Louis, an unimaginable amount of farm and town infrastructure, and several nuclear power installations. It would be the greatest national disaster in US history. Just sayin’.
A shy, science-nerd correspondent writes: “Epidemiologists speculate that a flooding event in Central Asia steppes triggered the 1347 Eurasian plague outbreak. Rumors of a mass human die-off in India reached Europe in the mid-1340’s. The Mongols besieging the coastal city of Trebizond on the shore of the Black Sea catapulted plague infested corpses over the city walls and Italian merchant ships fleeing Trebizond carried the infestation to Genoa which foolishly permitted the dying crew to land…. Rodents hosting plague spreading fleas typically inhabit arid grassland regions such as the Great Plains of America and the semi deserts of California and New Mexico. The current flooding of the American Mid-West and the mass dumping of flood tainted wheat, corn and soybeans will likely spark a rodent population explosion in the region, which in the context of rat-swarming homeless encampments may yield a 1347 repeat event in North America during the 2020s. What happened before can happen again.”
The homeless camps around Los Angeles have turned up cases of other medieval-type diseases typical of human settlements before public sanitation became a standard feature of civilized life: Many are spread through feces (as well as drug use): Hepatitis A, Typhus, shigellosis (or trench fever, spread through body lice), and tuberculosis. Gawd knows what is coming across the border into America’s proudly leading “sanctuary state.” Wait for it. Just sayin’.
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Ya’all are free to believe whatever you want. Free will, and all that. All I ask is that you extend the same courtesy to me. It’s a respect thing. I respect your decisions, whether I agree with them or not.
But how many signs do you need? How many articles/comments over the years here on TBP have referenced the phenomena of desensitizing? Keep that in mind the next few months/years as this sordid drama continues to unfold/escalate. There is nothing surprising about any of this. More and more biblically grounded people are banging the drums and blasting the trumpets, but onto deafened ears, more often than not. I mean, in what area of our existence is there not division, confrontation, collapse and turmoil?
This, I believe fervently, is a God thing. There’s a lot of contention amongst the family of Christ about the details as these times play out, but if a couple of billion people are united in the core belief of where we’re heading, and believe that they have sufficient proof for that belief, shouldn’t a rational person at least investigate it with an open mind? I mean, eternity is one seriously long time to be wrong. If you add in muslims and their sincere belief that the 12th Imam is imminent and all that that entails, than the count goes up a couple more billion, give or take.
Not all of us who believe are simple stupid uneducated easily-bamboozled morans eager to be conned. I can research with the best of them, and I have a very high standard of acceptance. Anything that doesn’t stand up to deep inspection is to be discarded. I learned early on to let the evidence mold my beliefs, not try to twist evidence to support my beliefs.
OK, enough drum-banging and trumpet-blasting.
Downvotester, do your thing!
I’ll upvote that in a heartbeat!
Get in while the grace is good…! God won’t put up with us forever.
You can call it God, I call it Natural Law. Our country was built by building a strong infrastructure. Instead of maintaining that infrastructure – we have pissed our time and energy on useless foreign wars / entitlements / unisex bathrooms / and many more useless, immoral, perverted things.
One just needs to look at NYC, which is largely dysfunctional, and Chicago – the murder capital of the US. These places are falling apart – physically and morally.
I believe we are accelerating toward the great reset – fiddle while Rome burns.
Who created natural law? Primordial ooze or God?
I Am Who Am. The Living God.
“But how many signs do you need?”
Do you know why the Bible predicts famine, drought, floods, earthquakes, and all kinds of other calamities?
Because famine, drought, floods, earthquakes, and all kinds of other calamities have been part & parcel of human existence for thousands of years prior, and all the way to our own age.
Dutchman has it right. It’s called Natural Law. (Or, maybe, Llpoh is doing some fucken Injun Rain Dance to smite our asses.)
But you think the 2019 Flood in the midwestern USA is because god predicted it. How quaint. What’s god’s forecast for April 1, 2525 (if man is still alive)?
You are referring to only one small part of puzzle. You’re describing the tip of the trunk, so to speak, and only one small twitch of that tip.
Stuck,
I saw what you did there. “According to Wikipedia: “In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)” is the title of a hit song from 1969 by the Lincoln, Nebraska duo Zager and Evans, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks, commencing July 12.”
You’re old, aren’t you?
the floods in the midwest cover about 1% of the total of all US farmland. bad for those affected, but not the end of the world… Chip
Also rejuvenates the soil, depleted by industrial farming.
“Do you know why the Bible predicts famine, drought, floods, earthquakes, and all kinds of other calamities?”
Yes. Because God will someday cause them (and more) on a massive scale in order to remove physical sin from His creation. He will then remake both heaven and earth as it was supposed to be in the beginning.
As I said to one other atheist: “If you don’t believe in God, then you had better make sure you are right!”
I have all my immunizations and a bunch of popcorn stocked up.
Two weeks spent at home after Sandy was nothing and if the lights go out for a few months or more it ain’t gonna make a difference to me. Bring it on.
Some of those crisis management people are going to get a big dose of reality pretty fast if SHTF and we will see who was swimming nude when the tide goes out.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-30/midwest-apocalypse-satellite-data-show-least-1-million-acres-us-farmland-devastated
Then there is this:
“The biggest floods to hit the USA Midwest crop growing belts since 1993 and 1927, this appears to be the largest event event ever recorded in that area of North America in the last 150 years. Since the trade war with China, more 6.7 billion bushels in storage of the 17 billion bushels total has been lost due to flooding and contamination. Going by 1993 price rises after the flood a jump of 30% at the minimum is forecast. Global grain production down 7% over the last two years and poor conditions in the fields will make refilling the silos difficult at best. ”
Maybe someone can dispute this so it doesn’t sound so terrifying.
It’s not just crops; the beef industry has had record losses, also. Expect prices for everything to go up, sharply, in the next few months. Think about all the corn for the cursed ethanol fiasco. Up it goes there, too.
We do a lot of yakking on this site about preparing. Well, this is what we’re preparing for. It’s not just a hobby.
What’s sad for many midwest farmers is that they’re already depressed and anxious over spring planting. Even if they miraculously had some sort of relief by means of a dry spring, how do they plant fields when the roads are washed out?
But now the bad news: The snowpack in the Upper Missouri River Basin has not melted yet.
I’m following Joseph’s example while we are still in the 7 years of plenty.
Yup!! Buy up some beef & stock your freezer before the food price inflation gets excessive.
Maybe it won’t be as bad as depicted/predicted here (2 minutes):
Here in Minnesota we had ‘a lot’ of snow. I think we may have had 30″ in March alone. Dairy farmers were hit hard – some couldn’t get their milk to market, there were numerous dairy barns that have the roof collapse from the snow load.
In ’93 the Mississippi was something like four times its normal size. It was frightening. There is nothing like that this year. It does seem everything to the west of the Mississippi is really outdoing itself.
It may be terribly bad in certain places but not everywhere.
Harry… The spring melt has just begun. Fuck California, they have a whole ‘nother drainage source. Too bad, so sad they pissed away the $$ on high speed rail, etc. Most everything on the eastern side of the great divide & the western side of the eastern great divide eventually empties into what river?
http://www.americaswetlandresources.com/background_facts/detailedstory/MississippiRiverAnatomy.html
“Fuck California”?
Hard to argue with that. Except for one thing; we get a LOT of fruits, veggies, and nuts (the kind that grows on trees) from there. In the end, it’s us deplorable Americans who will be getting fucked (in the wallet).
Wonder where CA sends all the nuts it cuts off those metrosexuals in SF and LA?
Many exported to Australia.
Chile can take up some of the slack next winter if our harvest tanks.
HR,
I lived on (in) the Mississippi in ’93. I’m now in western IA in the Missouri watershed. It’s wet, but thankfully not raining at present. A wet rainy spring could bring disaster.
The end is nigh.
Good ! I hope God makes an example out of this godless secular nation. We whites have pissed it all away. I don’t know who I am more disgusted with. Blacks and so called Jews or white people who will not wake from their slumber. Anything that will get white people off their asses is good news.
Off topic but I am here in Las Cruces NM at the NASA test facility. You would not believe the shit I have experience here with this government operation. It is no wonder this nation is broke. It just never ends . Of course NASA is another lie and Scam. We never went to the moon. No one has ever left low Earth orbit. It’s all a fucking disgraceful lie. Before any of you vote me down or come back with any smart ass remarks do some research. Your eyes will see the truth.
China and Russia will judge the USA then God will judge them and everybody else.
That’s why you don’t want to miss the Rapture Express.
Is that why you live in a minority majority state?
Find any dessicated tourists on the dunes at White Sands lately?
Thomas Jefferson: “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.” God helps them who help themselves and the Voters did not help on Nov 2018. “Nature” has been bad since then and the Spring weather forecast is awful; not to mention the GSM cold, earthquakes & volcanoes coming; Liberal Insanities certain in the 2020 Election. and the overdue Economic & Social Collapse caused by Dollar hyper-over printing. Thomas Jefferson: “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” That applies to the Welfare Democrats not the Productive Citizens who are most critical for our own welfare, who really need our help at the moment, the small Farmers & Ranchers who have been flooded. Probably the Metro-sexuals care less but within a year their food costs will jump and have them screaming. It is obvious that the floods of 1973, 1993 and 2008 shot corn prices up ( https://www.macrotrends.net/2532/corn-prices-historical-chart-data ) and the flood of 2019 will have an even greater effect especially if Farmers & Ranchers receive inadequate help. Democrats Repent or this is just the very beginning of your sorrows.
I’m not too worried.
The strength of the dollar due to capital flight will make the US the cheapest place to buy food.
It will also be the most profitable place to export to.
I just passed my colon cancer screening test, and now I have to worry about plague? That is a major buzzkill.
” …. and now I have to worry about plague? That is a major buzzkill.”
Tell me about it. I just saved 15% on car insurance by switching to Geico.
You only have to worry, when the doctor is wearing only one glove.
Uh, not to rain on the doom parade, but is the plague not caused by bacteria, and can’t antibiotics kill the bacteria, hence curing the disease?
Oh, and Canada, which isn’t expecting flooding, will be happy to sell Americans wheat, corn, rye, beef, pork, whatever you need. I imagine a lot of other countries would also be happy to sell the US whatever it needs. Maybe divert a few billion in military spending to help with this and to help farmers decimated by the flooding.
But presenting this as a coming disaster is more interesting, I guess.
You missed it, but there are many antibiotic resistant bacteria which are right now morphing more resistance and several are expected shortly to be completely resistant. One of them makes your dick rot and fall off.
Two words:
Colloidal Silver
mark
Yersinia Pestis is the bactera; streptomycin (and gentamycin) and tetracycline(s) are common treatments for humans.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1610074/
And THEY will never divert funds from warfare to save some people; that would defeat the purpose of spending so much on war. Duh!
🙂
So you’re saying that an Iranian drone (or “19 saudis”, or whatnot) could fly into the ft peck dam and cause the greatest natural disaster in US history? Isnt entropy a bitch.
I much prefer enthalpy.
FWIW, the Bible predictions are not really intended for the general public; it’s not a farmers almanac. It offers hope for sinners and prophesy for believers of signs leading up to the Lords return.
So using bible prophesy to say this will be a hard year is not it’s intended purpose; for that refer to the almanac. But, if you are longing for the return of the Lord, than these signs of our times plus other specific indicators reveal that the day of the Lord draws near.
But when? As followers of Jesus, we are called to live as if the Lords return will occur at any moment, so the critics will point and laugh at various predictions that are thrown about, but the believers who live in the reality of the Lords imminent return, predictions are more like a comfort and a warning to trust in His promise and prepare our hearts to meet our maker.
Exactly.
This is more of a prediction for the unbelievers.
2 women arrested after stealing during ‘Shop with a Cop’ event
https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/2-women-arrested-after-stealing-during-shop-with-a-cop-event/
Days of Noah and all that.
Ginger,
In the 80’s I worked in a Target Store in Texas. During the grand opening the store donated $500.00 of merchindise to a local family in need. The Father accepted hand picked items (about 3 shopping carts in those days) at the Grand Opening Cermony for the employees and their families.
Less then a year later we had him sitting in the Loss Prevention Office handcuffed for felony shoplifting.
What’s the old story about feeding a mangy dog?
Well said sir!
I need a turn in an autoclave from just reading this cheery missive.
Self administer an enema first.
JK…+++