Just clicked this old post, 2007. Did people know about the huge crater in the Iraq Marshes that was formed around 2,000 BC by that year? There was a major eruption of Mt. Etna 1500 BC +/-50 years. A heavy ash cloud falling over the upper Nile could have led to physteria bloom, blood red water, dead cattle, plague of toads, flies gnats, skin infections,etc. If there was a more general volcanic instability in the region, Hail could happen from volcanic dust encouraged clouds, and locusts sweep in from the desert according to their own reasons. Other regional volcanic activity could cause several days of darkness, and eating undercooked moist bread would be more likely to kill than eating dry unrisen flatbreads for a week, as would eating roasted meat, not boiled or raw. Regional volcanic activity could have provided a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night. Also there is a phenomenon called inflation that could have uplifted the waters dividing Egypt from Sinai and let it fall again. In Japan when Mt. Usu erupted a few decades ago, the land inflated around 300 feet. So that is my scientific theory and I am sticking to it. Exodus 12:40 says the Israelites lived in Egypt 430 years (the NIV Bible says about 1876 to 1446) which could fit with the Mt. Etna scenario.
It’s around here somewhere... hmm...
Seems like the researcher’s name was Prouty... ah well, backup plan:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3672211/posts?page=43#43
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/curseofagade/index