As APL started his own thread, I re-opened this one.

Hurricane Katrina was blamed for about 1,200 deaths. The latest figure in the news for Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, said to be 3.5 times as powerful as Katrina was, is over 10,000 deaths. Entire cities have been leveled by the storm, including the coastal city of 220,000 people, Tacloban.

The storm has stayed over water instead of making landfall in Vietnam as was earlier predicted. It is much less powerful now, however. It seems its damage is mostly done, but there are reports of deaths in Vietnam as well.

Other countries are offering to assist the Philippines in this emergency. I think that is the proper thing to do. They will need a lot of help for quite some time. I still haven't heard from my friends in the Philippines.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

In what way is weather a "sign of the times"?

GC, thank you for the update. I've been following it in the News. Very sad. In tuff times people tend to turn to Jesus. I hope and pray missionaries and monies donated will serve to help the displaced people recover and live even more fervently for Jesus.

I expect that during the year 1890 there will be great mortality. There will be crimes greater than any now on record. There will be weeping and lamentation and woe. During the past year, 1889, there has been brought to us almost daily the news of disasters by sea and by land--unusually destructive fires; earthquakes burying cities and villages with their inhabitants; railway accidents most terrible; tornadoes and floods that destroyed an immense amount of property, including the terrible Johnstown and Williamsport floods, which destroyed more than two thousand lives. {3MR 312.1}

The disasters of the past year in America have caused hearts to tremble, and similar disasters have fallen upon other countries. Already sprinklings from the vials of God's wrath have been let fall upon land and sea, affecting the elements of the air. The causes of these unusual conditions are being searched for, but in vain. {3MR 312.2}

God has not restrained the powers of darkness from carrying forward their deadly work of vitiating the air, one of the sources of life and nutrition, with a deadly miasma. Not only is vegetable life affected, but man suffers from pestilences. Cholera and unexplainable diseases have broken out. Diphtheria, raging to a limited extent, is gathering its harvest of precious little ones, and seems to be almost uncontrollable. {3MR 312.3}

These things are the result of drops from the vials of God's wrath being sprinkled on the earth, and are but faint representations of what will be in the near future. Earthquakes in various places have been felt, but these disturbances have been very limited. This year we may expect to have more. During the year that has just closed, whole cities have become nearly extinct. Thousands of people have been buried in the bowels of the earth. Premonitory convulsions have been felt in many places, giving warning of what may come as a surprise when the earth shakes and opens. Terrible shocks will come upon the earth, and the lordly palaces erected at great expense will certainly become heaps of ruins. The earth's crust will be rent by the outbursts of the elements concealed in the bowels of the earth. These elements, once broken loose, will sweep away the treasures of those who for years have been adding to their wealth by securing large possessions at starvation prices from those in their employ. And the religious world, too, is to be terribly shaken; for the end of all things is at hand.--Ms 24, 1891. {3MR 312.4}

This topic is closed for awhile, as it went off topic and we had two nearly duplicate threads going discussing the same content which has nothing to do with tropical storms.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

I have reopened this thread with the understanding that all future posts will be on topic and not go off into the same content of the other thread.

I thank God that I made it through that "Super Typhoon" just fine. There is a low pressure area that has been floating around for almost two weeks that has become a tropical depression AGATON. If it doesn't move soon, it will turn into a typhoon. It is only moving around at about 5 kph now. That is roughly 3 mph.

I have been praying about this for about a week now already.

Hurricane Matthew shows hurricane destruction getting worse, the Caribbean Islands, and Southern East Coast of USA suffered the fury of extreme weather!

Haiti:
it now appears nearly 900 Haitians died in the storm and many more remain missing. More people are dying due to disease that is spreading in the wake of the destruction. Thousands of homes destroyed.

Haiti is still recovering from an awful earthquake in 2010 that left thousands dead and great destruction. Now this terrible hit by Hurricane Matthew has caused more great damage.

Bahamas and Cuba, Dominican Republic and St. Vincent and the Grenadines were hit.
Full statistics not found.

Hundreds of people had the roofs blown off their homes as Hurricane Matthew swept across Cuba, a Cuban state media reported, while photos from the seaside town of Baracoa showed devastation in the severe storm's wake.

More than 30 houses were washed away by the hurricane in the northeastern Cuban town,


Florida:
They consider themselves "lucky" as Hurricane Matthew did not hit them directly, yet it skimmed along Florida's coast, causing several hundred million dollars in damage and destruction. About 2.2 million households and businesses statewide were without power.

Georgia and N. Carolina:
The weakening storm inundated parts of Georgia and the Carolinas with severe coastal and inland flooding.
437,000 people had lost electricity in South Carolina.

Maybe true. Maybe not. Maybe a technicality.

Hurricanes travel a course. If there is something in the way, it gets destroyed. If it is not in the way, it survives. Some years, the line it draws crosses more things than other years. So any destruction of any particular year does not really indicate much of anything.

So destruction doesn't mean much. Strength may, and that has been getting less and less the last several years up to Matthew.


Now by increased destruction, if there could indeed be detected a tendency rather than a draw of the line, that could mean God is withdrawing protection.