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The following is the second example of two contrasting natural disasters occurred in the US and China in 1887. They were the historic US drought of 1887 and the 1887 Yellow River Flood. Was the timing of both events purely coincidental? Sceptics of my theory (the Law of Global Water Equilibrium) will have to dig deep into history for more striking examples.
1. We were in the throes of a historically hot, dry summer in late July 1887. This was the worst drought & hottest weather since the major drought & heat waves of 1881 .
In the Weather Bureau Monthly Weather Review for our section of Indiana: Eel River at “lowest level in 25 years”………“mills supplied by it are obliged to suspend operations”……..“extremely hot & dry weather continues in this section. Many farmers report that even though the rain should fall at this time the corn crop would be short. Grass is dying & in some localities stock are suffering from want of water.” “………..the corn is actually burning up from the excessively hot weather”.
Prof. H.A. Huston of Purdue University stated in the Weather Bureau’s Monthly Weather Review of 1887 that, “the temperature for the month has been extraordinarily high, the mean for the state 5-6 above normal…………several stations a maximum of 105 was recorded……..only one July that the rainfall has been less than this & that was in 1881.”
The 106 at Logansport this month was the hottest since the hot summer of 1874 & the 105 at Lafayette was the hottest since 1881. The thermometer exceeded 100 on 13 days at West Lafayette from July 13 to August 10. From July 5 to August 20, only 0.44” of rainfall was recorded at West Lafayette. In eastern Illinois, official U.S. Weather Bureau stations topped 113. 100 was recorded as far north as northern New England & 101 in northern Michigan.
There were political ramifications of the drought, which actually began in the Plains in 1885/86. Texas was hit especially hard by the extreme drought in 1886. The famous Texas Seed Bill of 1887 sought to bail out suffering farmers from the drought in Texas, but President Cleveland vetoed it & took criticism for doing so. However, others applauded the move....
Massive wildfires occurred Ontario & Quebec to Michigan in late summer & fall 1887, like 1881 & due to it being the worst drought in the Plains until 1894, the mass exodus of settlers continued from that area. Plains farming has always been boom or bust & the bitter winters of the 1880s, followed by drought, only perpetuated that bust. It was not until the late 1890s that settlers began to return to the Plains in earnest once again.
Source: https://www.wlfi.com/content/news/The-Historic-Heat--Drought-of-1887-489557991.html
2. The worst flood in modern human history occurred in the late spring of 1887 in the northern provinces of China, in the valley of the Yellow River. The Yellow River flood china 1887 length is considered to be up to three thousand miles. For many centuries, China’s most fertile agricultural plain draws its wealth from the waters of the Yellow River. Indeed, the Great Northern China Plain, which occupies most of Hunan, Hubei and Shandong provinces, was formed by thousands of years of sediment brought in by the waters of the Yellow River. It is an area where crops of corn, winter white wheat, vegetables, cotton, and kaolin are grown. This is where the backbone of China’s economy is created, here is the heart of China’s agriculture.
The river usually bursts its banks in the spring, causing numerous floods, of which there have been over 1,500 since 2297 B.C. But the 1887 flood is considered one of the most formidable floods....
Day after day the roiling waters of the Yellow River flood 1887 invaded the towns, destroying and devastating them. A total of 600 towns along the river banks, including the walled city of Hunan, are believed to be the effects of the Yellow river flood 1887. The rushing torrent continued to wash away fields, animals, cities, and people, flooding an area 70 kilometers wide with water that was up to 15 meters.
The flood brought death to 900 thousand people (according to other reports, about two million people drowned and starved to death). The waters of the Huang He flooded 80,000 km2 of land, which is approximately equal to the entire territory of Austria. Many villages were buried under a layer of silt, about seven million people were left homeless, thousands of people were missing.
The truth is that the flood was just the beginning, it did not stop in 1887, but lasted until 1889 with the devastation and desolation left behind after the water receded. Statistics have no clear number of casualties, as the following events (epidemics of diseases, famines, and cases of cannibalism ) should also be rewarded to that natural disaster. By 1889, when the Yellow River finally returned to its course, the disease had added to all the misery of the Yellow River flood 1887 facts. Half a million people are believed to have died of cholera.
Source: https://naturalworldisasters.com/1887-yellow-river-flood/
1. We were in the throes of a historically hot, dry summer in late July 1887. This was the worst drought & hottest weather since the major drought & heat waves of 1881 .
In the Weather Bureau Monthly Weather Review for our section of Indiana: Eel River at “lowest level in 25 years”………“mills supplied by it are obliged to suspend operations”……..“extremely hot & dry weather continues in this section. Many farmers report that even though the rain should fall at this time the corn crop would be short. Grass is dying & in some localities stock are suffering from want of water.” “………..the corn is actually burning up from the excessively hot weather”.
Prof. H.A. Huston of Purdue University stated in the Weather Bureau’s Monthly Weather Review of 1887 that, “the temperature for the month has been extraordinarily high, the mean for the state 5-6 above normal…………several stations a maximum of 105 was recorded……..only one July that the rainfall has been less than this & that was in 1881.”
The 106 at Logansport this month was the hottest since the hot summer of 1874 & the 105 at Lafayette was the hottest since 1881. The thermometer exceeded 100 on 13 days at West Lafayette from July 13 to August 10. From July 5 to August 20, only 0.44” of rainfall was recorded at West Lafayette. In eastern Illinois, official U.S. Weather Bureau stations topped 113. 100 was recorded as far north as northern New England & 101 in northern Michigan.
There were political ramifications of the drought, which actually began in the Plains in 1885/86. Texas was hit especially hard by the extreme drought in 1886. The famous Texas Seed Bill of 1887 sought to bail out suffering farmers from the drought in Texas, but President Cleveland vetoed it & took criticism for doing so. However, others applauded the move....
Massive wildfires occurred Ontario & Quebec to Michigan in late summer & fall 1887, like 1881 & due to it being the worst drought in the Plains until 1894, the mass exodus of settlers continued from that area. Plains farming has always been boom or bust & the bitter winters of the 1880s, followed by drought, only perpetuated that bust. It was not until the late 1890s that settlers began to return to the Plains in earnest once again.
Source: https://www.wlfi.com/content/news/The-Historic-Heat--Drought-of-1887-489557991.html
2. The worst flood in modern human history occurred in the late spring of 1887 in the northern provinces of China, in the valley of the Yellow River. The Yellow River flood china 1887 length is considered to be up to three thousand miles. For many centuries, China’s most fertile agricultural plain draws its wealth from the waters of the Yellow River. Indeed, the Great Northern China Plain, which occupies most of Hunan, Hubei and Shandong provinces, was formed by thousands of years of sediment brought in by the waters of the Yellow River. It is an area where crops of corn, winter white wheat, vegetables, cotton, and kaolin are grown. This is where the backbone of China’s economy is created, here is the heart of China’s agriculture.
The river usually bursts its banks in the spring, causing numerous floods, of which there have been over 1,500 since 2297 B.C. But the 1887 flood is considered one of the most formidable floods....
Day after day the roiling waters of the Yellow River flood 1887 invaded the towns, destroying and devastating them. A total of 600 towns along the river banks, including the walled city of Hunan, are believed to be the effects of the Yellow river flood 1887. The rushing torrent continued to wash away fields, animals, cities, and people, flooding an area 70 kilometers wide with water that was up to 15 meters.
The flood brought death to 900 thousand people (according to other reports, about two million people drowned and starved to death). The waters of the Huang He flooded 80,000 km2 of land, which is approximately equal to the entire territory of Austria. Many villages were buried under a layer of silt, about seven million people were left homeless, thousands of people were missing.
The truth is that the flood was just the beginning, it did not stop in 1887, but lasted until 1889 with the devastation and desolation left behind after the water receded. Statistics have no clear number of casualties, as the following events (epidemics of diseases, famines, and cases of cannibalism ) should also be rewarded to that natural disaster. By 1889, when the Yellow River finally returned to its course, the disease had added to all the misery of the Yellow River flood 1887 facts. Half a million people are believed to have died of cholera.
Source: https://naturalworldisasters.com/1887-yellow-river-flood/
