OAKLAND, Calif. -- It's time to batten down the hatches one more time and prepare for yet another Doomsday – nextweek, in fact – according to the pastor who previously incorrectly predicted the world would end May 21.
This time 90-year-old Harold Camping has set the positively final date for October 21 and says itwon't be pretty.
"The whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect) are under the judgment of God and willbe annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011," he says on his website, FamilyRadio.com.
Camping, who suffered a mild stroke last June shortly after his May Doomsday prediction failed to materialize, previously claimed the world would end in 1994.
His explanation for the faulty spring deadline, according to the website,is that God's salvation program ended that day and for the next five months everyone was under final judgment

Friday, Oct. 21.
But as the day wore on around the world, there was no sign that doomsday had dawned.
Millions of dollars had been spent by Family Radio and its followers toget the world out about May's date with doomsday. Some quit their jobs, or donated retirement savings or college funds for the more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs that were plastered with Judgment Day messages.

Camping suffered a mild stroke in June. His daily radio program, "Open Forum," is no longer aired on the Family Radiosyndication network, which includes more than 60 U.S. radio stations.
Contacted by telephone on Thursday, Family spokesman Tom Evans declined to comment on Camping or his prophecies — except to say that he had "retired" as a radio host but remained chairman of the board of Family Stations Inc.
'Nothing to report' Camping himself had little to say when he answered the door of his home in Alameda, wearing a bathrobe and leaning on a walker."We're not having a conversation," he told a Reuters reporter, shakinghis head with a chuckle."There's nothing to report here."