The Rude Pundit: Photos That Do Portend the End of Days (Just Not the Christian Way)

Yes, that is what it looks like. It is a lake of blood. Well, more precisely, it's the remnants of the OC Fisher Reservoir in Texas. It is effectively completely dry, except for that puddle. That red color is due to the thousands of dead fish, who crowded the shrinking water trying to survive and failing, and bacteria. Despoiled nature, not, you know, vengeful sky wizard. It was a 5400 acre lake that was 53 feet at its deepest point. It hasn't been that deep since 1982. This is what it looked like at almost the same spot in 2009, at 2% of capacity:



The drought in Texas is so bad that when Tropical Storm Don hit last week, the air was like a Bounty paper towel commercial. It just got sucked dry and was done. Almost no desperately needed rain.

Some people look at Fisher Reservoir and see it as a sign that Jesus is about to come back to earth. One might imagine that a God who created earth would return just because he's so pissed off with how much we've fucked up his beautiful planet. He might even be pretty biblically angry that people who should know better don't do a damn thing to help it. So maybe God's just gettin' out his smite-sword and is ready to take out some assholes because it's pretty clear he doesn't care what Texans have to say.

See, back in April, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a proclamation declaring April 21-24 "Days of Prayer" for rain. In May, less than two inches of rain fell. In June, less than one. So either the people of Texas are Sodom and Gomorrah-like sinners who can't pray enough to please a god with such low self-esteem. Or God hates Texas and is just fucking with it because it's raining at least a bit more in states around it. Or Rick Perry is just a pathetic fuckbag who would do anything to make himself seem like the evangelicals' candidate for president.

'Cause, see, prayer doesn't do shit other than make the person praying have a moment when they think peace and/or happiness are possible, like masturbation, but less effective. Politicians, though, they can fuck with the world. Rick Perry governs the state that puts the most carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Last year, when the EPA said it would regulate greenhouse gases, Perry filed suit with the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn the EPA's authority. In his recent book he said that global warming is "all one contrived phony mess."

Apparently, God is showing Perry otherwise because his answer to the prayers of Texans is "No."

(By the way, the photo at top was taken a week ago. Even the blood is probably dried by now.)

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than praying to his God. At least all the shaking and ground vibrations might stir up a small thunder cloud or two.

Not that it makes it more drinkable.

Much of Texas is going to be like Arizona/Utah/Nevada in the future.

Not that this offsets the fact that people are about to go without drinking water, or the loss of crops and cattle. Not to mention the growing threat of heat related deaths and power shortages. We're just now beginning what's our hottest month of the year.

I should get some kind of bonus points for finding something cool in all the devastation we're seeing down here. After all, thanks to water rationing, our glasses can only be half full Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday now. :(

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It's a shy creature, and we don't want to scare it away any more than it has been already!

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Lone_Star_Dem!
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Seriously, this IS interesting and yes, you are to be commended for your half full glass of water! Don't know how you do it. I went through a couple of 100 degree days in Seattle two years ago (I know, nothing - nothing! - compared to what the rest of you are experiencing now), but it affected me so adversely I was in tears frequently and feeling so sorry for myself and was glad I'm not a gun owner because I'm sure I would have become homicidal. So even though I have a teensy inkling of what you're experiencing, I have no real grasp of the reality and am amazed you ARE able to keep on keepin' on.

I stand in awe.

Take care! :pals:

You poor folks don't have the heavy duty air-conditioning systems like we have. 100 degrees to you folks is like 110 or more to us here. Where I live we don't usually see a lot of 100 degree plus days, but we do manage to survive them when we get them. Where you are people die at 100 degrees because they're not used to, nor set up for, dealing with them.

Yesterday, were I am, it was 112 degrees. Yes, that's right, 112 degrees in the shade! So far today it's only 108. This is not weather I even know how to deal with. It's a heat the presses into your body as if your in a pressure cooker the minute you step outside. I burned my feet - as in a real burn - this weekend walking out on my deck barefoot at 10:00 AM. That was new to me.

They said Texas will lose the majority of its trees less than 10-years old to this heat/drought. As if Texas could afford to lose any of our natural defenses against the air pollution.

:(

Don't know what anybody could have done in these conditions, but praying probably wouldn't have even been on my list.

So hoping for a change in the weather soon for my fellow Americans. Even the Republicans. :hug:

At least, as long as you're in fifth grade, and I think the Rude Pundit is a little older than 11. I'm all for the sweet, creamy rudeness, but nitwit pronouncements don't always advance the point, you know?

Thanks for the thread, meegbear.