Sad situation in southern states of America---
Texas is a high petrochemical producer -- lots of oil digging and refineries.
What happens when a hurricane comes and does major destruction in such an environment? It releases all manner of pollutants in the air and water systems.
Hurricane Harvey has caused tons of chemical pollutants to escape into the air, and has the potential of polluting the water system.
This holds serious hazards to health.

And what will happen this coming weekend as another monstrous hurricane heads toward the southern states????

As of 8:00 p.m. Sept. 5 The National Hurricane Center, US, confirms that Irma is a dangerous Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 295 km/h (185 mph)

It will hit the Islands Wednesday -- then, the question is left open, will it turn on Florida? or head into the golf of Mexico?

Posted last year 10/09/16


***Please pray for Haiti as Hurricane Irma approaches. They've already suffered so much in the past, pray that hurricane Irma by passes them!

Hurricane Irma -- one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic --
-- Irma has maintained intensity above 180 mph longer than any storm in Atlantic basin history.

-- At 9 p.m. ET, Irma's core was spinning about 55 miles north-northwest and moving away from San Juan, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph.

-- Meanwhile, Jose, in the open Atlantic far to the southeast of Irma, became a hurricane. Katia, in the Gulf of Mexico, also became a hurricane.

Yes, terrible damage from extreme weather is definitely increasing.
There are millions of people right now facing some pretty awful times.

Those little islands in the Atlantic were hit terribly hard.
Florida has evacuation notices beginning tomorrow (Thursday) as it is likely they will receive a direct hit by Irma.



THIS SABBATH -- Sept. 9 a special offering will be taken across the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventist Churches for relief efforts of Adventist Community Services (ACS) in connection with ADRA to help those whose lives have been devastated by the hurricane.
We can all help!

I will certainly be praying for all in harm's way.

Prayer is powerful.

This testimony given in church today.
The member has relatives living in Dominican Republic. Naturally there was great concern. The relatives prepared with water, food, blankets, but when they went to get plywood to cover their windows there was no more to be bought.

With the fear that the storm would blow out all their windows and wreck their home, they sent up earnest prayers and retreated to a safe area.
When the storm hit -- it was terrifying, the winds roaring with great fury, things flying through the air and crashing, yet their house was unscathed.

It was like an unseen hand decreed -- thus far and no further.
While prayers ascend for those afflicted, praises also ascend thankful for God's protection.

There was considerable flooding in California last month --
may be a foretaste of another mega flood in that area in the near future.

Wasn't last year about this time when Louisiana had terrible flooding?
"Thousands of people in Louisiana lost everything"

We've been focusing mainly on America --

But what about Asia?

South Asia Flooding, killing thousands, crops decimated

More than 1200 people are believed to have been killed in massive floods and landslides that have rocked Bangladesh, India and Nepal. Millions suffered destruction to homes or complete lose of their homes.

https://news.adventist.org/en/all-news/n...t-world-church/

Sad that he did not include South Asia in his special message.

An 8.2 earthquake hit Mexico Thursday Sept. 7 killing at least 80, injuring many more, and flattening hundreds of homes in several small towns in the southern region.

In Mexico City the large population spent a terrifying night, watching buildings shake violently, but thankfully there was not too much major damage.

An 8.2 earthquake is a massive quake!
It has scientists worried that an 8.2 quake could also hit California.
However, in California such an earthquake would be far more deadly.

Mexico’s earthquake produced four times more energy than the great and destructive 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Thursday’s earthquake occurred in the ocean off the Mexican coast and began about 450 miles from Mexico City — and it was relatively deep, starting about 43 miles under the surface.
So in Mexico the populated areas were a fair distance away from the quakes center.

But in Southern California, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake would rupture the San Andreas fault from the Salton Sea — close to the Mexican border — all the way to Monterey County. The fault would rupture through counties including Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino. There would be a lot of people right on top of it. It would be shallow, and it runs right under people's backyard.

Information source -- mainly from Los Angele's Times Sept.9,2017

Economically.

It has meaning to money.
Not relevant to "worse weather".

Have you searched to see if there was a hurricane of the same degree in the past?

Or are you emphasizing "damage"? Meaning, as more and more people build more and more things, smaller hurricanes will do more economic "damage".