Alameda Resident Predicting End of World Again

Alameda's Harold Camping, a resident of the Fernside neighborhood, is once again predicting the end of life as we know it.

Camping first suggested that the world would , though a supporter of his told Alameda Patch last May that that prediction was not firm.

Camping's book about that end was called 1994?.

“The title had a question mark,” Alameda resident Guy von Harringa, an employee at Camping's Family Radio, told Patch's Alison Moodie in May. “You can’t be held accountable for suggesting something might happen.”

Then, this last spring, Camping gained as May 21, the date he predicted the world would end, approached. 

Camping identified May 21, based on intricate bible-based calculations, as exactly 7,000 years since animals entered Noah’s Ark to avoid the flood.

The day after the May 21 rapture failed to materialize, the now 90-year-old Alameda resident, head of Family Radio, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was "flabbergasted" and that "it'd been a really tough week."

Now, six months later, and after suffering , Camping is once again forecasting the earth's demise.

"The end is going to come very, very quietly, probably within the next month," Camping told his followers, according to an Oakland Tribune report. "It will happen, that is, by Oct. 21."

The Tribune is also reporting that tax returns for Camping's Oakland-based nonprofit show it has assets of more than $104.8 million, up more than $30 million from the year before.