Posted on 09/05/2006 3:12:34 AM PDT by protest1
Prayers for rain answered in West Texas – and how!
Reservoirs overflowing 1 month after officials made case to God Posted: September 4, 2006 10:39 p.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Heavy rains impact Lubbock, Texas (courtesy KCBD-TV)
There was some snickering in certain parts of the country when city officials in the drought-stricken West Texas towns of Lubbock and Rockwall took their case for rain to God in the form of resolutions calling for prayer.
While the votes made national news – sometimes in the "quirky" sections of big-city dailies and news services – the results didn't, until now.
Within seven days of the Lubbock vote, the rains started. And they haven't stopped.
Some three and a half inches of rains fell in the town over the Labor Day Weekend alone, overflowing some reservoirs and spillways.
Jody James from the National Weather Service recalled: "We were dealing with red flag warnings, fire danger, and extremely dry conditions earlier in the year."
Without mentioning the prayer requests, Channel 11 KCBD reported: "Looking outside, you'd never guess a month ago that Lubbock was described as parched, and in serious drought conditions."
James said: "We were very behind on rainfall, several inches below normal as we got into the early mid-part of summer, just in the last 3 days we have got 3.5 inches."
In January, the Lubbock City Council implemented stage one of its drought contingency plan because of the dry conditions. By June the situation had reached the desperation point. Lake Meredith, Lubbock's primary water source was at a record low, and losing water daily.
In July, Lubbock had received only about half its normal rainfall of 10 inches. Between June 1 and the Lubbock vote at the end of July – which represented the growing season for cotton – the area got only .75 inches, far less than the normal 4.43 inches. As September gets underway, the area is on track to reach its annual average for rainfall.
"All areas lakes and reservoirs are doing better, but we still need more rain. We can't just recover from a long term drought in one episode of rainfall, but this is what we needed to get started," said James.
Apparently taken with the results in Lubbock, the West Texas town of Aledo is considering a similar resolution for prayer.
It's not the first time prayers for rain in Lubbock have met with good results. In January 2004, after a year of drought, the city and county set aside a Sunday to pray for rain and got the second-wettest year since records have been kept.
Lubbock, Texas, plans to pray for rain.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672018/posts
Why would a city have to have a resolution to pray for rain?
Looks like to me that the citizens would have enough sense to pray without the government telling them to.
People in West Tx. have been using prayer just to survive forever.
ping!
Thought you might like this update to your original post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672018/posts
Looks like to me that the citizens would have enough sense to pray without the government telling them to.
People in West Tx. have been using prayer just to survive forever.
Maybe it puts them on public record, taking a stand, a form of "witnessing" and gets Extra Credit...?
Obviously the drought and subsequent downpours were both the result of Global Warming. The return to normal precipitation, should that occur, is also predicted by Global Warming. It will hit us two days before the day after tomorrow (which never comes).
America needs more reservoirs.
Dam up the Grand Canyon and buy me a Jet Ski, (and about 500 acres of desert come farmland.)
God does expect us to use our noggins and do some planning.
He even sent Pharaoh a dream, which Joseph interpreted to mean that the products of the 7 years of plenty were to be conserved to help through the 7 years of famine.
Might help reduce the cost of oil a bit.
For several weeks our local weather reporters have been crying the blues about our “rain deficit” - we were a few inches below average. Our reservoirs were still full.
Then Ernesto came through.
No more "rain deficit".
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