Matisyahoooooooo
October 7th, 2016God 1, Pundits 0
What a great day I’m having. There is nothing like the day after a hurricane misses you.
Matthew did a great deal of damage in Haiti. I read that the death toll is 283. It’s very sad, but it’s to be expected. Haitians don’t build well, they don’t have money to prepare for storms, and according to what I’ve been told (lots of Haitians in Miami), they ignore storm warnings because of their culture. Problems that would be minor in the US or other developed countries are disasters in Haiti.
In Florida, Matthew accomplished virtually nothing. The storm never came ashore. The wall of the eye sort of scraped Cape Canaveral, but that, after all, is a cape. It projects several miles into the Atlantic. A storm with an eyewall that hits Canaveral misses the mainland.
The storm is now projected to miss Florida and Georgia entirely. It’s supposed to bounce off South Carolina as a Category 2. That’s a far cry from the coast-sweeping monster we were expecting day before yesterday.
Matthew is not going to be a big problem for Americans. Even if it hits South Carolina, the storm surge will be small, and the winds will not be too bad. Life is about to return to normal.
Predictably, some Miamians have behaved like predators. I checked Craigslist for tool postings yesterday, and there were a lot of ads for generators. One lout put up an ad asking $475 for a generator that costs $275 new. The Miami mindset is incurable.
I’m so grateful to God for moving this thing away from me and from everyone else in America. What a miserable week this could have been.
“Matthew” means “gift of Yahweh.” I couldn’t have put it better.
October 7th, 2016 at 12:50 PM
Praise God!
October 7th, 2016 at 4:24 PM
They just didn’t know what they were doing when they named it Matthew. Doesn’t that just fit? I love it. I, too, am sorry and grieved for Haiti. I am thankful Florida and Georgia were spared as much as they were.
I lived on Sapelo Island GA for a year when we and our children were young. I love those islands. One of these days God is going to take the paved over ones back into His care. I really believe that. I saw the evil strip He cleared off on the Mississippi and Alabama coast with a hurricane in the 60’s. It’s all back again, but He can clear it again. It’s his world, we’re just passing through.
Glad you are okay.