Who is the Parowan Prophet?

He's an old guy who used to be a member of the Church but was excommunicated for polygamy and preaching apostate doctrine. He has dreams of an atomic holocaust in the U.S. and used to write warnings in the Letters to the Editor of the local paper, even naming the date when it was going to happen. When his prediction didn't come true, he would just set a new date. He pretty much quit writing until just before this past Christmas when he had another dream, in which he saw himself coming out of Wal-Mart, looked towards the southwest and saw a huge mushroom cloud. He predicted that there would be an attack before Christmas. If not then - sometime soon. A reporter from the L.A. Times caught wind of him and came to Parowan for an interview. I looked it up on the internet, and there was quite an article about him which included pictures of his few followers. Our renters were in the picture. They are all caught up in survivalist things - even had a bed down in our old cellar! We've seen the prophet at the old house several times, and once Val saw him coming up out of the cellar. He asked him what he was doing, and he said the Shaffers had asked him to look over their storage stuff. I think he was looking at the cellar to see if it would qualify as a bomb shelter. I don't mean to make fun of them for trying to prepare, but I don't understand how they can look to that old guy as their "prophet," and not realize that if the Lord was going to give that kind of a warning to the world it would be through someone more believable than him!