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Hurricane Season – Part 2
Sometimes we humans aren’t too smart. We don’t use our God-given intelligence. In the 21st century, with satellite technology and weather sensors, we see a hurricane forming, building, and strengthening, and can easily track direction and progress. As the hurricane grows nearer, we are forewarned to leave an area. Sometimes we are ordered to evacuate. […]
Hurricane Season – Part 1
Although now living in British Columbia, some of you are aware that I grew up in South Carolina. The areas are as different as chalk and cheese. One of these is the weather and what influences it. Here we have the Japanese current, bringing relative warmth to our part of the southern Canadian Pacific coastline. […]
Flooding – the Billion Dollar Disaster
Last month’s flood event in Colorado, and a June 2013 event in Alberta emphasize that flooding is one of the most severe, ruthless, and destructive of disasters. Most of the natural disasters to which I have responded have been somehow related to flood waters. The SE Asia tsunami was, in essence, a flood, whose source was […]
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