Hey God!!
You got somethin' against Americans?
The Largest Natural Disaster In U.S. History: The Endless Drought Of 2012 Will Bake America Well Into August
I know. I know. You're just trying to outdo yourself on the 40 days and 40 nights thing to try and impress us Prodigal-Son Canucks and bring us back in line, but why punish the Yanks at the same time?
In the meantime, I'm still waiting for the soil in my weed-beds (er, make that flower-beds) to dry up so I can get rid of those greedy creations of yours. Isn't greed one of the seven deadly sins?
And how could you let this happen?
PS: It will be interesting to see how the CAGW folks will spin this one. I know. I know. Weather, not climate. Or should that be: Weather north of the 49th; Climate south. It's amazing what those imaginary lines can do.
The Largest Natural Disaster In U.S. History: The Endless Drought Of 2012 Will Bake America Well Into August
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has created the largest natural disaster area in U.S. history. The USDA has declared 1,016 counties in 26 U.S. states to be disaster areas. The USDA declaration basically covered about half of the nation, and there is now no denying how horrible this drought really is."They're a God-fearing people, far more than we atheistic Canucks, in any case. Why not send some of what you've been giving us to them? Hmmmmm? We'd happily share it with them.
I know. I know. You're just trying to outdo yourself on the 40 days and 40 nights thing to try and impress us Prodigal-Son Canucks and bring us back in line, but why punish the Yanks at the same time?
In the meantime, I'm still waiting for the soil in my weed-beds (er, make that flower-beds) to dry up so I can get rid of those greedy creations of yours. Isn't greed one of the seven deadly sins?
And how could you let this happen?
PS: It will be interesting to see how the CAGW folks will spin this one. I know. I know. Weather, not climate. Or should that be: Weather north of the 49th; Climate south. It's amazing what those imaginary lines can do.
Labels: AARRRRRRGGGHHHH, Canuckistanis, climate, God, weather, Yanks
posted by Louise at 1:31 pm
6 Comments:
One of the little facts of pre-Civil War America is that we were in a drought for the 16 years before the war. The drought extended from the southwest across the US and ended the year the war began - 1860. During the war, it was noted the aurora borealis was seen south into Virginia.
Do you know of a website that speaks to that factoid? I'd love to read about it.
Also, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't pre-Civil War USA boundaries/territory much smaller than it is today? So if the area suffering from drought this summer is the "largest natural disaster area in US history", perhaps that's because large tracts of dry land are now part of the US that previously weren't part of it.
Trifling details, I know.
The sky is falling. The sky is falling.
Or maybe that should be:
The sky is not falling.
The sky is not falling.
Ergo: The world is coming to an end!
You're quite right, Louise. The US was a much smaller place then and even what was US land was not covered by standard meteorological stations or people to witness the weather/climate conditions.
The source of the pre-Civil War drought info is "The Comanche Empire" by Pekka Hamalainen, Yale University Press, 2008.
The source for the borealis info is one of the 3 volumns, "Civil War" by Shelby Foote.
I've also read that N. America was just coming out of a very long drought period in 1620 when the Pilgrims arrived at Massachusetts. The drought caused failed crops over several years which led to inter-tribal raiding and wars over food and resource territory, and hunger weakened the people to greater susceptibility to a smallpox epidemic introduced by the Spanish that spread across the continent destroying complete tribes. Drought across Europe at that time was one of the many reasons the Pilgrims left Europe.
Actually, by 1860, the continental US had reached it's Manifest Destiny and stretched from Atlantic to Pacific. Much of the West hadn't reached statehood yet and was still organized as federally administered Territories but Calif. and Oregon were by then states.
Alaska was still a Russian colony, "Seward's Folly" purchase of Alaska for $7 million dollars was later, in 1867. We hadn't yet formally grabbed Hawaii, that was in 1898.
Of course, the world hadn't yet been graced with David Suzuki, et. al., so we didn't yet know we were destroying the world with Apocalyptic Global Warming, alias "Climate Change". Quelle horreur!
Oh, and another thing. The summer of 1934 was hotter and drier than this one. It was hotter and drier than any summer since they began scientifically keeping weather records in the US and in Canada, about a century previously.
Remember the 1930's "Dustbowl"? 1934 was the trough of it. Of course, we won't hear about this historical fact from The Usual Suspects, as it doesn't fit their "Climate Change" agenda.
Some clothing history trivia: up till 1934, Canadian and American men dressed in these bathing suits. (In fact, we have a couple of old family photos from th eearly 30's, before my parents married, showing my Dad and some friends at some lakeside, wearing these old tanktop-type men's bathing suits.) That summer was so hot, especially on the east coast of North America, that everyone went to the beaches, lakesides, riversides, etc. as much as possible to try to get some relief. A few daring men at eastern beaches began shedding their tanktops, with police immediately rushing out onto the beaches and arresting them for indecenct exposure or some such charge. Then over a few weekends at the height of the summer heat, so many men started removing their tanktops at most of the eastern beaches that the police just couldn't enforce those indecency laws and gave up trying. Those laws were later repealed.
Imagine that! Topless men being considered indecent! Just goes to show that "indecent", like "beauty", is a perception.
#1, no, I don't remember the dustbowl. Sheesh. I know I'm old, but not that old.
#2, I have an old photo album of my Dad's days in the army (WWII). He trained at an army base in Manitoba (Shilo) and there's a picture of him and bunch of his buds swimming in the Assiniboine River, in the buff (taken at an appropriate distance, of course).
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