A terrible drought in Texas: the fanatics are waiting for doomsday Bashny.Net

The entire territory of Texas, many districts where the temperature rarely drops below 40 ̊, declared a disaster area. Because of the incredible heat and drought are terrible losses farmers dry ponds. In Texas, the lake turned red, because of what the religious fanatics predict the beginning of the Apocalypse.

Meanwhile, the drought was the cause of the unusual finds - in shallowed lake in Texas locals found a large fragment of the shuttle ...
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1. America faint from the heat - almost half the country is suffering from an abnormally high temperature. Position heavy. Suffice it to say that the National Weather Service warned of 24 staff and recorded since the beginning of July 670 records temperature. In the photo: The inscription on the board on a highway in Texas - The intense heat. Thermometer showing 107 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 41.6 degrees Celsius.





2. Set the heat dried fields and threatened to leave the country without a crop. The entire territory of Texas, where temperatures recently rarely drops below 40 ° C, is declared a disaster area.



3. Texas farmers are suffering huge losses, breeders have to slaughter cattle. End of unprecedented heat and drought can not see, and their losses are already estimated at $ 3 billion. In the photo: exhausted longhorned bull on a farm in Stoneham, Grimes County, Texas.



4. According to local residents, the air is so red hot that on the dashboard of the car it is possible to fry eggs. Number of victims of natural anomaly has reached 39 people.



5. Drought in Texas did not help even a tropical storm "Don", which took place close to Texas in the last days of July. Above the southern part of Texas spilled a few scattered rains, but the hope of residents to substantial rain melted together with the storm, which left little rainfall and a strong breeze. In the photo: Large poster with the words "Pray for rain".



6. Police National Park, Texas, Thomas Bigem is cracked bottom of an artificial lake OC Fisher in San Angelo 3 August 2011. In this region for several weeks in a row is unprecedented heat. The drought has led to the almost complete drying of the lake, an area formerly occupied about 22 square meters. km.



7. Local residents noticed that the water in the artificial lake of the National Park Texas, acquired a sinister blood-red color. In the photo: A police officer Thomas Park, Texas Bigem measures the depth of the lake dried up in San Angelo, Texas. Now the depth of the lake is just over a meter.



8. Experts explain this phenomenon is the action of bacteria and severe drought, but many have a different version - the approaching end of the world. They remember the New Testament, where the description of the apocalypse are the words: "And the second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood, and died the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and the third part of the ships were destroyed. " Photo: View from the embankment to the fragment parched "bloody" lake OC Fisher at the gates of the dam.



9. And in the almost dried-up lake in Texas have already become extinct thousands of fish. Scientists calm panicked Texans and declare that no staining of the water is due to the end of the world, and with the action of bacteria Chromatiaceae, which actively propagate in the water, devoid of oxygen. Photo: Dried carp at the bottom of the dried lake in San Angelo, Texas.



10. However, what happened to the lake in San Angelo, - not an isolated phenomenon. In 2010, it became a "dead" and red falls in several countries. In the photo: the remains of the caiman at the bottom of a dried-up lake.



11. In addition, because of the terrible drought in shallowed Lake Nacogdoches County in Texas was found a large fragment of the shuttle Columbia, which crashed eight years ago.

Space shuttle Columbia crashed on Feb. 1, 2003 during the approach to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The tragedy occurred because, at the start of a piece of heat-insulating foam separated from the external fuel tank struck the wing of the space shuttle. Millions of people watched the TV coverage of landing ship, which turned into a report on the death of seven astronauts were inside the shuttle.

During the eight years that have passed since the disaster, NASA was able to collect at least 40% of fragments of the ship - on the Texas and Louisiana have fallen more than 84000 pieces.



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