Shouldn't they be asking why God sent the drought in the first place?

Norrie is absolutely correct. I look forward to the day when Pagans in Georgia can be allowed to hold a weather magick circle on the Statehouse steps. Or some of Georgia's tribal shamans can do a "rain dance" (or whatever the correct terminology is) on the Statehouse steps.

Thanks alot- Schmendrick!

I prayed for a tomato and a bottle of Hennessey, not a tornado in Tennessee. Sorry Tennessee!

Here's the full story on the rain. If God sent the (useless)rain, who sent the tornado?

http://www.ajc.com/shared-gen/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Southern_Drought.html?cxntlid=inform

Georgia Gets Rain, but It May Not Help
By GREG BLUESTEIN

Associated Press Writer November 16, 2007 - 5:43 p.m. EST Atlanta Journal Constitution

ATLANTA — A storm system crashed through the Southeast and brought up to an inch of rain in parts of drought-stricken Georgia, but forecasters said the storm likely did little to ease the state's historic drought.

The rain late Wednesday and early Thursday brought some precipitation to the parched hills of northern Georgia. The showers began a day after Gov. Sonny Perdue led a prayer service on the steps of the state Capitol to beg the heavens to end the drought.

"Certainly, we're not gloating about it," Perdue said from a trade mission in Canada. "We're thankful for the rain and hopefully it's the beginning of more. ... Frankly, it's great affirmation of what we asked for."

As the drought has worsened, Perdue has ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle against the release of water from federal reservoirs and appealed to President Bush.

About an inch of rain fell through north Georgia, and Atlanta received about a half an inch. It wasn't enough to ease the ease the drought, forecasters said.

"It puts a little bit of extra water in some of the smaller tributaries and reservoirs, but it doesn't provide any significant long-term benefit," said Matt Sena, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "We need months of above average rainfall to start putting a dent in this," he added.

Storms hit elsewhere in the Southeast, injuring at least nine in Tennessee.

In Kentucky, a tornado hit a rural stretch of the southeastern part of the state Wednesday afternoon. No injuries were reported.

"It was real intense," Laurel County Sheriff Fred Yaden said. "The winds were really strong, and the rain was coming in gushes."

In Tennessee's Marion County, the roof of a Baptist church was heavily damaged in the storms, said Jeremy Heidt of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. Three children were hurt by flying glass and were taken to hospitals, said Heidt.

City Hall across the street from the church suffered minor damage, Heidt said, and an ambulance business next to it had heavy damage. A house also collapsed, but the residents went to the hospital themselves.

"I couldn't get the door open because the outside pressure and wind was so strong," said Justin Lawhorne, manager of Wendy's restaurant in Kimball.

County schools were closed Thursday due to the storm.

More than a quarter of the Southeast is covered by an "exceptional" drought — the National Weather Service's worst drought category.

Joking aside, it's well documented that shamans, through the exercise of their will and psychic energy alone, can produce rain and call game animals, fish, birds, and whales to come forward and present themselves to the tribe's hunters to be unresistingly killed.

Shamans, those leaders of supposedly "primitive" cultures, well understand the universe and how to use energy and will to produce these events that we "advanced" people consider impossible.

Poor Governor Perdue. He doesn't understand that uttering a few words into the air to an imaginary diety will produce no effects of the kind he hopes for.

Governor, to produce rain or other desired effects in nature you first have to undertstand the energies of nature and learn how to control them.

Christianity has no such understanding. Appealing to its dieties (the polytheistic trinity) for changes in nature is useless and futile.

Governor, if you want to continue your pursuit of bringing rain to Georgia, you should first go to Mexico and apprentice yourself to a successor to Castenada's Don Juan.

Wouldn't it have just been a little easier to use their water wisely? It's not like this is some sudden thing. "Oh my goodness! Where did the water go!!??!! The lakes were full yesterday. OMG!" They've had plenty of time to start conserving water but they haven't and instead they call on their invisible sky buddy for help. That's pretty impressive governance.

We used to ridicule the Indians for their dancing for rain! America is certainly regressing.

I think Bush should follow the Governor of Georgia's example and call for a national day of prayer, asking for manna (dough) from heaven to pay for his trillion dollar wars.

I think Bush should follow the Governor of Georgia's example and call for a national day of prayer, asking for manna (dough) from heaven to pay for his trillion dollar wars.

shari,
your govenor, is also mine, is also a buffoon. he is george w's mini-me. that aside, i contend that if his prayer was responsible for the system that brought that pittance of rain, he and the state of georgia should be held accountable and fiscally responsible for the tornado damage to my home state of tennessee.

always think. encourage others to do the same.

Correction: The "Drought-Stopper" Rabbi didn't pray for rain on Nov 14 - with rain following that evening; his prayers came ONE WEEK EARLIER - so he can't exactly be "given credit" for any such precip.

MEDIA ADVISORY, Nov. 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- Rabbi Yehuda Levin, whose prayer for rain in Columbia SC on August 7, 1986, was followed by four days of rain. (See documentation by visiting our web site www.GodReignOverUs.com) came to Atlanta and prayed for rained at the Goldome Capital Building on November 7, 2007. To view the video slide program and prayer click here. (http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/652164749.html)

And check it out - this Rabbi is a Right-Wing Whack-Job... a kindred spirit to the meanest Mullah in Islam (or the craziest Xtian):

"We are very encouraged by Governor Perdue's continuation of praying for rain. According to the Jewish tradition such prayer was often accompanied by fasting, but more importantly by introspection repentance and a commitment to better ones ways. Thus to make our prayers truly effective and end this drought and various "natural" disasters, we call upon the Governor and religious leaders statewide and nationally to specifically condemn the immoral movements that surely cause Divine displeasures and harm our country and youth physically and spiritually:

A- Abortion on demand, eliminating millions of pre -born incense causes G-d to weep according to a source in the Kabbalah.

B- Homosexuality & Homosexual marriage were the final societal breakdowns which brought about the flood of Noah and the destruction of Sodom (hence the name sodomy) according the ancient midrashic text." (there's more).

Hey, I can hardly fault people for praying for rain, especially with such need pressing, ...just funny how when *I* do it, I'm the bad guy.

What can you do.

Actually... the funny thing is, now that I think of it, so was I, just the other day, for what it's worth from where I am, on account of hearing that drought was still going on.

Guess maybe you could figure either a) Next time you want to abridge my religious rights, look what you do, or b) Maybe I ought to call more press conferences. :)

Anyone mind the rain?

Oh, and by the way, might want to back up those prayers with some climate and management and infrastructure policies, Mayor.

Just cause no one deserves to run out of water doesn't mean this problem came out of the blue.

Dig?

Hey, I can hardly fault people for praying for rain, especially with such need pressing, ...just funny how when *I* do it, I'm the bad guy.

What can you do.

They remind me of rain dances too EibRonald. The only thing missing is an actual dance, the superstition is all there.

Given the Jewish rituals and dress, curls and such that many find bizarre...
perhaps this columinst would refrain from smirking about other's strange behavior. The prayers of Christians remind her of "rain dances".
But then we've heard how her parents, et. al. are horrified by what 'the rest of us' do.
Again, one wonders if she's comfortable among the 'rest of us'.
Her columns always let little squirts of
snottiness come wafting through.

"to pray with three Protestant ministers"

"The Jewish Telegraph Agency is reporting that “a thousand Orthodox rabbis are sending an emissary to Atlanta to pray for rain.”

The emissary, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, will perform an “ancient prayer ritual” Wednesday night, though the report didn’t say where.

The report says, “Levin reportedly performed the ritual in 1986, after which there was four days of rain.”

“Orthodox Jews wish to show solidarity with those suffering from the drought and other natural disasters,” said Levin.":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxqGr6lVa4E

Yes. It rained last night.