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Fox news - "It is the biggest evacuation in California history, from north of Los Angeles, through San Diego to the Mexican border."

*the number is up to 1,000,000 evactuated, 2000 homes lost and millions of acres destroyed. my heart broke as one lady shared her story this morning. it just hit me how much my "home" means to me and how devastating it must feelfor her to loose hers. i was struck with empathy and a desire to pray and i thought i'd post to just remind us, despite our own lives, there are much bigger things going on around us and as children of the king, we can pray for his hand to move. this has also came from a number of events happening around the nation and the globe. did you know that parts of new orleans flooded this week or that atlanta is only three months from having no water! i've included just brief reports from fox news on these two events. there are so major events unfolding in the middle east with the leader of russia and iran too. PLEASE join me in praying for these circumstances, that the people will find relief in all this and that God will show mercy.

fox news: New Orleans
On Monday, bands of heavy rain dumped about 7 inches of rain on New Orleans and its suburbs, leaving many streets impassable and flooding some businesses and homes. The city's system of pumps and drainage canals, while nearly back to its capacity before Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005, couldn't keep up.

Mayor Ray Nagin shut City Hall early and schools were closed across the city. Waist-high water in parts of eastern New Orleans soaked businesses, some of which had only recently reopened after being damaged by Katrina. The Army Corps of Engineers had to close a floodgate on the Harvey Canal because of flooding fears.

By Tuesday, most of the city was dry but a few spots were still flooded. Officials declared the city's efforts to fight the flood a success.

fox news: ATLANTA
CUMMING, Ga. — With water supplies rapidly shrinking during a drought of historic proportions, Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area.

Georgia officials warn that Lake Lanier, a 38,000-acre reservoir that supplies more than 3 million residents with water, is less than three months from depletion. Smaller reservoirs are dropping even lower.

Perdue asked the president to exempt Georgia from complying with federal regulations that dictate the amount of water released from Georgia's reservoirs to protect federally protected mussel species downstream.

More than a billion gallons of water is released from Lanier every day. The Corps of Engineers bases its water releases on two requirements: The minimum flow needed for a coal-fired power plant in Florida and mandates to protect two mussel species in a Florida river.

"We've learned from this what a blunt weapon the Endangered Species Act has become," said state Rep. John Linder. "We need to understand this lake was created not for mussels but for people."