After no rain in 5 years, Queensland, Australia, received three years’ worth of average rainfall in 1 week. The results were cataclysmic with massive flooding that killed up to 500,000 cattle from the flood waters.

The full extent of the losses won’t be known for weeks for there are properties remaining underwater and the flood waters are moving south. But the agricultural industry is saying the situation has already become “a massive humanitarian crisis.”

Australian cattle ranchers are saying the massive loss of cattle herds dying in the flood will cause such stock losses it will put them under severe financial stress were they cannot make loan repayments and take care of their families.

And now from the carcasses of the hundreds of thousands of dead cattle, water sources for living are contaminated. Also creating a rotting stench which is attracting feral pigs and feral cats that will come and eat that, which could then produce a plague afterwards.

The chief executive officer of the Queensland cattle industry, Michael Guerin, said farmers could take decades to recover. “There is no doubt that this is a disaster of unprecedented proportion,” Guerin said.

“The speed and intensity of the unfolding tragedy makes it hard to believe that it’s just a week since farmers’ elation at receiving the first decent rains in five years turned to horror at the devastating and unprecedented flood that quickly followed. The latest reports confirm our earliest fears (that) this is a massive humanitarian crisis … and is steadily expanding southwards.”

The cattle ranchers are also in a state of emotional and psychological shock after losing the cattle, with one saying, “we are so saddened by the suffering the animals went through with the flood, wind and rain. Some were washed away in the floods. They now hang in trees, fences, bridges, railway lines. They piled in corners to huddle together to get out of the wind and rain but ended up trampling each other. These images are hard to see.”

Guerin said the full extent of livestock losses would not be known until the water fully recedes, but some estimates put losses up to 500,000 head of cattle in Queensland.

The news media continue to increasingly report events they say are unprecedented. The word unprecedented means that events are happening in a way such as they have never happened before. And it’s becoming a consistent pattern in news events.

And these are signs pointing toward the prophecy of Jesus Christ in Matthew 24 that a time of tribulation is coming for the world with trouble such as never seen before.

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