TEXAS – A reservoir in West Texas turned blood-red in recent weeks. Does this mean the end of the world?
Due to unrelenting drought in Texas, the lake has almost entirely dried up, leaving thousands of dead fish behind. As of the last week in Novvembery, bacteria had turned the stagnant dregs of the lake red.
Many in Texas believes that this “blood lake” signifies the End of the World.
It is End Times? Or did the lake turn red because a drought has left the OC Fisher Reservoir in San Angelo State Park in West Texas almost entirely dry. The water that is left is stagnant, full of dead fish — and a deep, opaque red.
The color has some apocalypse believers suggesting that OC Fisher is an early sign of the end of the world, but Texas Parks and Wildlife Inland Fisheries officials say the bloody look is the result of Chromatiaceae bacteria, which turn red in oxygen-deprived water.
Texas is experiencing a major drought this summer, with 75 percent of the state’s area in an “exceptional” drought, the highest level, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC). The state had hoped for some relief from Tropical Storm Don in the summer, but the system fizzled and brought only an inch or two of rain to areas near the coast.
The drought has taken its toll on a number of reservoirs in West Texas, Cruz told LiveScience. OC Fisher has never been completely full, Cruz said, but it was stocked with catfish, bass, sunfish and other popular targets for fishermen.
“We surveyed the lake, I believe it was last year, and we had a pretty good fish population out there,” Cruz said. “It was pretty sickening going out there, watching lake levels just drop and drop and drop and seeing these nice trophy-sized bass just floating dead.”
End times predictions
As of last week, all that remained of the lake was a small pond a few feet deep, Cruz said. There were thousands of dead fish, he said, but no sign of life.
Pictures of this blood-red pool circulated online in fishing forums and caught the notice of Indiana preacher Sue Begley, who said that the lake might be evidence of the apocalypse as predicted by the Biblical book of Revelation.
“The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died,” the passage Begley cited reads. “The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.”
Begley may not have any more luck at predicting the end of the world than did Harold Camping, the radio preacher who set the date for May 21, 2011. But for as long as the drought persists, the OC Fisher reservoir is a reservoir no longer.
“I don’t know what’s left in there now. We haven’t been back,” Cruz said. “But I would guess it’s probably pretty much gone already.”
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I thought this event wouldn't happen into next year.
Those who refuse to understand science will always turn for a fast answer to fantasy, depriving the earth of genuine help while robbing it of its natural resources. The End Times is fiction and came from the mind of an illiterate man who was put on Patmos island where criminals and the insane were housed; the same result of Chromatiaceae bacteria is said to have occurred during the days of "Moses", "Elijah" and other characters–and the planet survived. It is time to study science not scripture and learn to live in harmony with the planet and not give into superstition.
I wonder if vampires had something to do with this.
I don't know, why else would the skies and trees be a muted gray, but the lake crimson.
those werent the real pics!
Maybe your wrong arthuride, what then and if this is explainable through science (which is the study of not the knowing of) then what is there big and fancy theory, that usually gets disproved and changed in 5 to 10 years. 🙂
I think it was just a lot of menstruating women were swimming in it yesterday.
That's disgusting!