Texas blood-red lake seen as sign of apocalypse

[The Straight Story]

Texas blood-red lake seen as sign of apocalypse

As if Texas’ drought wasn’t bad enough, it might be a sign of something worse, some Christians worry. A favorite fishing spot in West Texas has turned blood-red, cuing rapture-ready believers to claim that it’s evidence of the end times.

The OC Fisher Reservoir in San Angelo State Park has dried up, with lonely fish skeletons left in the basin and the remaining water a deep red. It looks like a biblical plague.

“Together now (the dead fish) float in clumps numbering in the thousands in and around that small pool of water that remains — its surface stained the color of blood by the amount of death and algae inside,” wrote John Boyd, of the Midland Reporter-Telegram. “This is how a reservoir dies: Not to the slow and steady slurp from a municipal straw, not to a gentle dissipation into the heavens, but abruptly, in a violent battle by nature against itself.”

http://blog.chron.com/believeitornot/2011/08/texas-blood-red-lake-seen-as-sign-of-apocalypse/

[seabeyond]

1. anything to do with the red clay.... and drought. nt

[11 Bravo]

11. Or maybe an algae bloom?

[aquart]

2. God blames Texas for the debt deal?

[seabeyond]

3. oh my.

lol

[ingac70]

4. Pollution? Or....

does fresh water get a type toxic red algae too?

[Ilsa]

6. "Red tide?" I think the heat and low salinity help cause it. nt

[TheMadMonk]

13. No, simply the reduction of square miles of lake to puddles of mud...

...due to extensive drought.

Enormous numbers of fish eventually die and the whole mess devolves to a soup of (mainly) red bacteria. Nothing directly sinister involved. Indirectly through global climate modification is a whole different debate.

[NutmegYankee]

7. It could be anaerobic bacteria.

Hot water can hold very little oxygen and provides an ideal growth medium for oxygen hating bacteria. As for salt - I'm sure the small batch of remaining water has a high salt content after the lake dried up.

[KT2000]

5. Maybe they should

look at science for the explanation - algae most likely. It happens.

[rurallib]

8. are you nuts? SCIENCE?

[undeterred]

16. The blue-green algal bloom does have a red phase...

[Horse with no Name]

9. I live along the Red River

and once a year or so...the bottom turns over...and the water turns red.

But, on a different note, I did see the Virgin Mary in a baby diaper the other day.
I would have saved it and auctioned it on Ebay, but the smell was pretty putrid.

[RagAss]

10. What are these people, retarded?

[JVS]

17. Have you seen the politicians they elect?

[Angry Dragon]

12. God said that he is mad at rickie perry

[Renew Deal]

14. The end is near!

:hide:

[Aristus]

15. Give me a break. Texans think it's a sign of the apocalypse if the Mavericks trail at the end

of the first quarter.

Recognizing signs of the apocalypse is what Texans do to make it through those long, hot churchy Sundays.

I'm so freakin' GLAD I don't live there anymore...

[BigDemVoter]

18. I think God must be damning TX. . .

:sarcasm:

[bluestate10]

19. Next, God is going to hit those fools up side the head with a celestial 2x4. nt

[Arugula Latte]

20. Idiots.

Why are so many people in this country so damn stupid. I'm just so, so sick of it.