For the first time in more than 100 years much of the Southeastern United States last summer reached the most severe category of drought, creating an emergency so severe that even Atlanta came within 90 days of running out of water.
The little town of Omre, Tennessee, was hauling water on fire trucks from Alabama and limited water availability to three hours a day. Christian artist Michael W. Smith and the mayor of Atlanta pleaded for people to hold prayer meetings asking God for rain. I don’t know for sure, but I heard the Baptists started sprinkling converts, the Presbyterians started dry cleaning, and the Methodists were handing out IOU’s.
It’s been dry, really dry, and people are rightly concerned.
The people of Israel were acquainted with droughts too. From the dusty roads of Pales…