Waters that Overwhelm You

I can say God never said that certain places wouldn't flood. He promised He wouldn't flood all of the earth at the same time killing every person and every animal ever again. I honestly believe a lot of the flooding we see now could be contributed to us. We create so many buildings, roads, and parking lots out of concrete and asphalt that the water has nowhere else to go but run off into the gutters and down the drains to the oceans and rivers, along with all our trash as well.

Where I live in the Tampa Bay area (FLORIDA) is a good example of how the concrete can heat up on the two main bridges over the Tampa Bay to cause actual thunderstorms to pop up right over that area and only that area. When the rain clouds start to pop up, it will be only on those bridges and nowhere else.

I think that kind of lends to the theory of the asphalt and concrete the bridges are made out of can get so hot they can cause their own thunderstorms to develop. My point in doing this post is the get people to realize that the flooding isn't always just from too much rain it's from too much over building and not having enough green space to let the water soak in before running off into the oceans and rivers. It has gotten so bad where I live we have wildlife in our backyards that we shouldn't have. Such as possums, raccoons, hawks and osprey, almost any kind of animal that should be in a rural area is now in my backyard.

Builders are taking all the green space that should be helping to soak the water in so it doesn't flood in the cities. Our city is getting better at making more parks and green spaces. Green medians with grass, plants and trees, so I can say I'm proud to live where I live because we're doing what we can to add green back to the city.

But we do have to understand that if things continue to go the way some cities are, there's just going to be more flooding when the rain gets heavy and goes on for days like it can here where I live. It's just going to run off and sit somewhere and cause flooding. If your city doesn't add green space contact your city officials and make sure they’re making it easier for the water to stay where it needs to stay and not run off. Most important thing God promised to never flood the whole earth. When He makes promised He never takes it back.

Genesis 7:10-12 (NKJV)

[10] And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

[11] In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
[12] And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Joshua 3:15-16 (NKJV)

[15] and as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest),

[16] that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the waters that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

Jeremiah 12:5 (NKJV)

[5] “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you,

Then how can you contend with horses?
And if in the land of peace,
In which you trusted, they wearied you,
Then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?

Matthew 7:25 (NKJV)

[25] and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Matthew 24:38-39 (NKJV)

[38] For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

[39] and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

~Building storm clouds from the hot summer heat on the concrete bridges.~

You can see where I circled the bridges. 

Water has nowhere to go in a big city so it floods, everywhere.

(Courtesy of Bay News 9)