Strange Weather - Page 6

NearertoGod · 06-04-2008, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ausgirl

When I was a child - which was about 20 or so years ago, in Summer, without fail, we would have a thunderstorm in the afternoon 3 out of 7 daysof the week at least. It would start to brew about mid afternoon, often breaking right on the time when school got out. Many a day I did the run home to beat the storm.
We haven't had summers like that for years.

You know, if God wanted to, he could fix the planet back to it's original state in a blink of an eye!

We used to have those too when I was in the 3rd grade during a bad season of rainstorms for two years. Everyday after 3:00 these thunderstorms would come up and I'd sit in my room and watch the rain and the wind and listen to the thunder. People wouldn't believe me because I live in Southern California but this went on for about two to three years...just constant driving rain.

Whirlwind · 06-18-2008, 06:02 PM

Okay - I forgot to post this.

Pray! Please?

Sunday we were coming home from Bend and there was a biiiiiiiiiiiiiig plume of smoke over the reservation (600,000 acres).

There was a fire!

I looked at my phone and there were messages from my mom and sister. The fire was right next door to my sister's house. They were calling in fire crews from all over. It was on the news that night.

They don't know how the fires started (but suspect fireworks).

The next day, there were two more (even before the first one was out).

Hoo-boy! I can tell how this fire season is going to look.

All of the fires are suspected human-caused.

Pastor Gary · 06-18-2008, 06:09 PM

If authorities and the court system were not so lax in their responsibilities, they would sentence arsonists and those who are responsible for brush fires by way of indifference, to stand in a morgue for 240 public service hours and observe the burned remains that come in from other fires. THAT has been done in certain jurisdictions and IS effective in making the criminals take notice of what their actions can result in. It is a judicial option that is used far too little in handing out effective sentencing.

Whirlwind · 07-01-2008, 07:02 PM

103-degrees over the last weekend.

There's still a record-amount of snow in the higher elevations; and with the heat comes thunderstorms in our area.

What funny is this:

Fire season has started. Over the weekend, lightning touched down and started some fires in the Mt. Hood area, where there's still plenty of snow on the ground. The lightning caused the canopy (tops of the trees) to burst into flames and start burning!

The fire never touched the ground. Firefighers on the news described how they had to struggle through the deep snow while fighting the fire.

Fire. And ice.

Pastor Gary · 07-01-2008, 09:18 PM

Many persons do not know that naturally occuring wilderness fires are occasionally needed to reestablish forest areas and to guaranty their continuance. The conifer cones need heat to pop them open and allow them to fall to the ground, so lightning sparked fires in the tops of the evergreens accomplishes this.

NearertoGod · 07-01-2008, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pastor Gary

Many persons do not know that naturally occuring wilderness fires are occasionally needed to reestablish forest areas and to guaranty their continuance. The conifer cones need heat to pop them open and allow them to fall to the ground, so lightning sparked fires in the tops of the evergreens accomplishes this.

Thank you! True

Whirlwind · 07-02-2008, 06:03 PM

In our oral history interviews, we hear from our elders that in the past (pre-contact), people would set fire to the huckleberry picking areas at the end of the season...oh, around October?

This would cause a wildfire that would naturally burn itself out. This cleared the land, started new-growth, and refreshed the huckleberry bushes.

Today, we don't do that. And the huckleberries are beginning to vanish.

If we tried to start a fire today, we'd be sitting in jail with our lips all purple.

Pastor Gary · 07-02-2008, 06:55 PM

Hey, Whirlwind - it is currently SNOWING in the 'back 40' at Glacier National Park - YUP, July 02... ( higher elevations ).

Whirlwind · 07-02-2008, 07:07 PM

Pastor, I remember watching a movie in a theater when I was a kid. It was called WAVES or something like that.

In this movie, there were radical weather patterns. Hot in one spot, large chunks of hail in the other. It was a sci-fi horror movie at the time. Everybody thought that it was so strange.

Today though, when I hear about flooding and fire in the same nation...it just seems the norm.

Heavnlydove · 07-03-2008, 08:12 PM

I remember visiting Mt. Hood as a child and seeing snow in June. Our forecast after tomorrow shows thunder storms every single day. Bring. it. on. We need rain.

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