Luke 21:25 ““And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves
Important Takeaways:
- ‘There are roofs collapsing everywhere’: Thousands of Californians are running low on food and water as California Governor Newsom declares state of emergency in 13 counties after historic winter storms dump seven feet of snow
- Newsom deployed the national guard on Wednesday to assist residents, especially in San Bernardino County, where some have been trapped in their homes for days
- Wind, freeze and winter storm warnings were issued by The National Weather Service throughout the sunny state effective until Thursday as temperatures hit sub-freezing lows down to 26 degrees Fahrenheit in certain areas.
- Southern California mountain ranges have been hit by several feet of snow and residents are begging the governor for help to clear the roads as food and water supplies run low.
- The counties named in the emergency declaration include Amador, Kern, Los Angeles, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, Nevada, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Sierra, Sonoma and Tulare.
- The storm left about 100,000 homes and businesses in the state without power as of Wednesday.
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Luke 21:25 ““And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves
Important Takeaways:
- Why SoCal’s winter storm is so unusual: Rain, big waves, rare blizzard warning
- Southern California has only gotten a taste of the powerful winter storm system that forecasters say will bring an extended period of cold temperatures, high winds and snow, prompting what officials called the region’s first blizzard warning since 1989.
- The blizzard warning, which is in effect Friday and Saturday for Southern California’s highest mountain ranges, is likely only the second on record for the Los Angeles area
- David Sweet, a meteorologist at the weather service’s Oxnard office said “Between late Thursday and early Saturday, we’re looking at a storm delivering more snow than any other snow in recent decades. This is an unusual storm for the area.”
- Though the snow will be most concentrated in the mountains, Sweet said, heavy precipitation and winds will span the region, especially Saturday when the “cold core” of the storm will center on Los Angeles.
- “It’s going to be a wild and woolly kind of day — the lightning, the thunder, the hail, the graupel,” he said, referring to a type of frozen crystal that can look like snowflakes. “No one is going to be spared.”
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Revelations 18:23:’For the merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.’
Important Takeaways:
- California exodus continues: State’s population dwindles by 500,000 in two years
- California has witnessed a sharp decline in its population in recent years, with 500,000 residents leaving the state over the course of the last two years.
- The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the population loss but is not the sole cause. High housing and cost of living prices, high crime rates in urban areas, and long commutes have all also contributed to the exodus, as residents move to less populated states, according to the Los Angeles Times.
- States near California, such as Utah and Nevada, have seen an increase in migration. However, both states are attempting to discourage Californians from moving to their states, according to the outlet. But Texas and Florida have seen the highest influx of migration. They gained about 884,000 and 707,000 people between April 2020 and July 2022, respectively.
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Acts 2:17 “And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
Important Takeaways:
- Over two thousand people gathered and marched in Jesus March Revival 2023 in Santa Monica, California on Saturday.
- The Jesus March, organized by United Revival, is a celebration and an opportunity for Christians to come together to publicly express their faith, something that is especially needed in these challenging times. Christian rock band “United Revival” performed for the crowd and shared testimonies of how their faith has impacted and transformed their lives.
- The Gateway Pundit reported on other powerful, public faith gatherings in recent weeks including a chapel service that began February 8 at Asbury University in Kentucky is still ongoing.
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Revelations 18:23:’For the merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.’
Important Takeaways:
- Californians are pouring into Nevada. Not everyone is happy about it
- California residents and companies have poured into northern Nevada since Tesla began building its battery pack factory in a business park outside Reno in 2014.
- In the last three years, the pandemic pushed another wave of Californians into northern Nevada. Here, they can retire or work from home or the ski slopes while keeping close ties to the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles
- The migrants are seeking to re-create a California lifestyle — a technology hub with comfortable communities, economic growth and mountain views — without California’s problems.
- More than 85,000 people traded California driver’s licenses for Nevada licenses in 2021 and 2022
- But Californians have found their state’s troubles here too. Streets in northern Nevada are becoming congested; city services, strained. Locals are getting priced out of houses and apartments by Californians who can pay higher rents or drop larger down payments. Nevadans are struggling with homelessness and drug addiction; lines for food and housing assistance are growing. The state’s public schools record some of the lowest standardized test scores in the country.
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places
Important Takeaways:
- California hasn’t seen a catastrophic earthquake recently. But ‘quiet’ period won’t last
- This week’s catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria is just the latest warning of the potential risks for California and other seismically active areas.
- The San Andreas Fault is capable of similar activity.
- “We’ve had 7.8 earthquakes in our historic past. We’ve had a great run without them, but it’s important to be prepared for these possibilities in the future,”
- The 1906 earthquake that destroyed much of San Francisco and the 1857 quake that ruptured a length of the fault from Monterey County through Los Angeles County and into the Cajon Pass
- “There will be 7.8s in our future. Absolutely. We have the faults, we’ve seen it in the past, it will happen again,” said seismologist Lucy Jones, a research associate at Caltech. “The timing of them, as far as we can tell, is random.
- A U.S. Geological Survey simulation of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Southern California led researchers to determine that it was plausible such a quake could cause nearly 1,800 deaths and 50,000 injuries, and destroy major utilities carrying fuel, power and water.
- In Northern California, a simulation of a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault east of San Francisco showed that there could be at least 800 deaths from the quake, plus hundreds more from fires afterward.
- A magnitude 7.5 quake on the Puente Hills fault — which runs underneath highly populated areas of L.A. and Orange counties — could kill 3,000 to 18,000 people, according to the USGS
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- The last thread of hope to revive California’s trees is vanishing
- As it turns out, far more of California’s tree cover is disappearing due to wildfires than from drought or logging.
- To be clear, wildfires remain a natural part of healthy forest ecosystems across the West, and controlled burns are important tools in forest management. But California has a fire deficit.
- [In short because more people are moving out the city to the forest the ability to safely do control burns has declined and combing over growth with drought it results in larger more destructive fires]
- With effective fire management, some Northern California forests might eventually grow back. But in the southern mountains, where forests are dying even without fires because of drought stress, chaparral may replace trees permanently.
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- Wildfires are increasingly burning California’s snowy landscapes and colliding with winter droughts to shrink California’s snowpack
- A new study shows that midwinter dry spells lead to dramatic losses of winter snowpack in burned areas
- The early pandemic years overlapped with some of California’s worst wildfires on record, creating haunting, orange-tinted skies and wide swathes of burned landscape. Some of the impacts of these fires are well known, including drastic declines in air quality, and now a new study shows how these wildfires combined with midwinter drought conditions to accelerate snowmelt.
- The enhanced snowmelt midwinter creates challenges for forecasting water availability from the natural snowpack reservoir. During the winter months, water managers need to leave room in reservoirs to prevent flooding; this means that earlier snowmelt may not be captured for later use in the dry season.
- This study really highlights the importance of bringing fire back onto our landscape in the sense that we need fire — good fire is the answer to our wildfire problem,” Hatchett says. “Bringing a more natural regime of fire, through prescribed and cultural fire, back onto our landscape will help reduce the likelihood of future severe fire.”
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- More Rain, Snow in California from Ninth in Series of Storms
- The ninth atmospheric river in a three-week series of major winter storms was churning through California on Monday, leaving mountain driving dangerous and the flooding risk high near swollen rivers even as the sun came out in some areas.
- The University of California Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted Monday morning that it had recorded 49.6 inches (126 cm) of new snow since Friday.
- A backcountry avalanche warning was issued for the central Sierra, including the greater Tahoe area.
- The sun came out Monday in San Francisco, where 20.3 inches (51.5 cm) of rain
- The average for the “water year” is 19.6 inches (49.8 cm), “so we’ve surpassed the yearly total with 8 more months to go”
- In Monterey County, the swollen Salinas River swamped farmland over the weekend and officials said Monday that it was still rising.
- Across the bay in Berkeley, 10 homes were evacuated Monday when a sodden hillside collapsed
- Forecasters were keeping their eyes on a storm forming in the Pacific to see if it gains enough strength to become the state’s 10th atmospheric river of the season
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- California Storm Parade Will Last Into Next Week With More Flooding, Feet Of Sierra Snow
- California will continue to be plagued by more Pacific storms into next week that could produce additional flooding, strong winds and feet of Sierra snow.
- The stormy pattern that’s gripped the state since late December has produced over a foot of rain in parts of Northern and Southern California. Major flooding, debris flows and damaging winds have been widespread impacts.
- National Weather Service tweeted:
- UPDATED total precipitation for the series of atmospheric rivers that have affected California since December 26, a period of 16 days.
- In this time California averaged 8.61 inches of precipitation and the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan statistical area averaged 13.34 inches.
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