North and South Carolina experienced a week of unrelenting heavy rain that dumped roughly 11 trillion gallons of water on those two states causing catastrophic flooding and more than 12 deaths. That much water is enough to end the drought in California, according to NASA calculations last December. But instead, the rain drenched the Carolinas. North Carolina received an estimated 5.2 trillion gallons while South Carolina received 5.8 trillion gallons.
But getting 11 trillion gallons of rainwater in a few days would not solve the problem of drought, which takes years to develop into the current severity in California. It would need many more big storms and many years to come out of a drought as bad as California is currently experiencing.
At the time of this briefing, the flooding in the Carolinas has caused over $1 billion in damages.
“While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. ‘The earth mourneth and fadeth away,’ ‘the haughty people . . . do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.’ Isaiah 24:4, 5.” The Great Controversy, page 589
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