Unusual, Deadly Weather, Serious Flooding Strikes America

By Brian E. Muhammad -Contributing Writer- | Last updated: Jan 12, 2016 - 6:06:26 PM

Dec. 27 photo shows path of deadly tornado as it worked its way through Garland, Texas. Photo: MGN Online

America is under the divine judgment of God for its continued brutal treatment of Black people and His weapons of choice in punishment are the forces of nature, teaches the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The beginning of 2016 is picking up from last year as big weather events in recent weeks followed repeated warnings to “watch the weather” by Minister Louis Farrakhan, the National Representative of Mr. Muhammad and the Nation of Islam.

(Top) Emergency workers search through debris of destroyed building after storm damage in Missouri. Photo: MGN Online (Middle) Flooding in St. Charles County, Mo. (Bottom) McDonald’s restaurant flooding in central Missouri. Photos: MGN Online

The Minister echoed the guidance of his teacher to a nation that was established on bloodshed, inequity and grave injustices specifically to the Black and Indigenous man and woman of America. Minister Farrakhan has been forewarning it’s “justice or else” at a time of growing violations and denials of justice. Both Mr. Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan said that Allah (God) Himself is answering the cry of His people for justice. In a Jan. 6 interview with The Final Call, the Minister said weather conditions and mistreatment of Blacks would worsen this year.

“America is under Divine Judgment as we speak. Elijah Muhammad taught us 50-60 years ago of what we’re going to face, and he said there would be Four Great Judgments: rain (unusual rain), snow (unusual snow), earthquakes, hail; and that He [God] would use the forces of nature against America,” warned Min. Farrakhan at the massive Justice Or Else gathering in Washington, D.C. on 10.10.15.

Even in the days leading up to the historic event which marked the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, record flooding struck South Carolina, where earlier in the year nine Black parishioners were gunned down by a reported White Supremacist, a White police officer was filmed shooting a fleeing, unarmed Black man in the back and efforts to bring Min. Farrakhan to Charleston to speak to the community were thwarted.

The injustice suffered by Blacks at the hands of Whites as well as the fratricidal violence against one another must be answered for and the real “Or Else” comes from God, Min. Farrakhan warned thousands of people during several stops in various cities leading up to Justice Or Else. The deaths of Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Timothy Russell, Malissa Williams and countless others must be answered for, he declared.

“What you see going on in Charleston, and in South Carolina, is very serious,” Min. Farrakhan said on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on 10.10.15. “They had never seen rain like that at all. How? Why? That’s Divine Judgment. When I leave you today, the calamities are going to get stronger, because God wants America to let us go. Not integrate us—let us go, and give us a good sendoff . Those of you who are scripturally sound, Moses was not an ‘integrationist,’ and neither are we,” he declared.

“Let me be clear, America has no future for you or for me. She can’t make a future for herself, much less a future for us. The scripture says, ‘Come out of her, My people …’—and we’re going to have to come out. God says He takes the kingdom from whom He pleases, and He gives it to whom He pleases,” said the Minister. In the closing days of 2015 Min. Farrakhan’s words came to pass as America received major blows from rain and record breaking floods. Texas was pummeled leaving 44 people dead; Missouri and Illinois were slammed by destructive weather conditions that swept through the states destroying property and leaving many people destitute in its wake. At one point millions of lives and property were under flood warnings in states spanning the Midwest to the Southeastern coast.

Volunteers and friends pray with Anna Mendez, third from left, inside her damaged home on Jan. 2, in Garland, Texas. Several people died when tornadoes hit the Garland area on Dec. 26, damaging over 700 homes. Photo: Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News via AP Wide World Photos (Bottom) Social media photo from an airplane trying to approach Dallas Love field that had to be diverted.

Reuters reported days of downpours totaling 10 inches or more in spots pushed the Mississippi and smaller rivers over their banks in several states. At least 31 people died in Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma and Arkansas, most of them after vehicles drove into flooded areas.

Nine people died in the Illinois flooding and a dozen counties were declared disaster areas there, said Patti Thompson, spokeswoman for the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

Meteorologists described the weather as “dramatic events” that was “freakish and unprecedented.” Some professional trackers of “Mother Nature” determined the activity was so strange; they proclaimed 2015 the year of “weird” and “wild” weather attributing it partly to global warming, the El-Nino weather pattern and other factors.

The New Year is picking up from where 2015 left off . Winter Storm Hera brought winds and frigid temperatures and snow to the Northeast, Appalachians, Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, Midwest and southern Plains states Jan. 8-10. According to the Weather Channel wind gusts of 71 mph were measured at Captree State Park in New York and Richford, Vermont recorded a gust of 62 mph. Wind gusts over 50 mph were also reported in Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Mount Mansfield, Vermont sustained winds of 81 mph and measured a wind gust of 117 mph on Jan. 10.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in 2015, there were 10 weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each across the United States. These events included a drought, two major floods, five severe storm events, a wildfire, and a serious winter storm, notes the NOAA. These disasters resulted in the deaths of 155 people and had significant economic effects on the areas impacted.

The Minister has continuously warned to “watch the weather” and that the distress would come— which would include the fall of the U.S. dollar and the weakness of the economy.

“It comes on the heels of Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland … and all that’s taking place in this country and as Minister Farrakhan said, it’s not going to get any better … It’s going to keep coming,” said Robert Muhammad, an Urban Planner and Southwest Regional Student Minister for Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.

Currently “the American Society of Civil Engineers rates America’s infrastructure as D+ and they say that it needs $3.6 trillion worth of investment by 2020 just to bring it up to par,” Robert Muhammad explained. Student Minister Muhammad said the U.S. government has not prioritized infrastructure spending since the 1960s because for the most part partisan politics. He said the political and economic circumstances weighing on America coupled with lack of spending and neglect creates the perfect storm for weather events to wreak havoc on the economic power of America.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad cautioned that God is angry about America’s long history of injustice, persecution and oppression. In his pivotal book, The Fall of America published in 1973, Mr. Muhammad wrote that God will deploy rain, hail, snow and earthquakes to chastise and break the power of America.

“We see them now covering all sides of America, as the Holy Qur’an prophesies curtailing on all her sides. And these judgments would push the people into the center of the country, and there they would realize that it is Allah (God) Who is bringing them and their country to a naught,” wrote Mr. Muhammad. The Nation of Islam patriarch said God will use the snow and ice as a weapon in a day of war and battle against the wicked. “All up and down the coast to the Carolinas, the rain takes up where the snow leaves off ,” Mr. Muhammad taught. “All around the Southern Border of America, storms are raging. There are tornadoes and heavy rains and more storms are on the way—one right after another. And in the North and Far West and in the East, America is surrounded with the judgments of Allah (God). There are earthquakes and the sea is raging. The Pacific Ocean is now angry and is raging and tossing up great waves as never before.” Experts are expecting more record breaking disasters for 2016 adding strain to an already vulnerable situation.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad further wrote “the worst is yet to come.”

(Final Call staff contributed to this report.)

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