Map For Some Europeans Here Who Have Questions about Helene...

[Jayne]

I've been asked a couple of times why do people live in hurricane areas if they know there are hurricanes.

If you don't live in the US, that's a logical questions.

Well, there are natural disaster areas all over the US.  Volcano/earthquake issues in Hawaii and California to say the least.  The west coast suffering every single year from horrible wild fires that devastate so much, The mid-west that suffers from horrible tornadoes, and the east coast/south that struggle with loss from hurricanes.

Here is a map of the expected flooding from Helene.  The green, the least expectations and the red, the most.  As you can see, the effects of Helene were VAST and in most places no where NEAR a coast line.  That's just what hurricanes [and tornadoes] do.

As of this morning, over 100+ dead AND over 600 that cannot be found because cell phone towers are down.  

My friend from North Carolina posted this morning that the Cajun Navy got there yesterday.  The Cajun Navy, from my state, is like a volunteer fire department.  But these guys volunteer in flooded areas to search and rescue and help as they can.  They are awesome guys and like fish, are accustomed to the water.

The damage was wider spread than most know.

It's not where you live.  It's where does the disaster go.

 

 

[Marathoner]

Here in New Mexico, tucked between Arizona and Texas, wild fires are our primary disaster. We also have to deal with smoke and dust storms coming to us from fires in Arizona, which is our issue right now apart from decades of drought. 

We had above average rainfall this year which brought NM out of "severe" drought. However, it would have to rain every day for about 5 years to end the drought itself. 

[In the Clouds]

One of my careers was catastrophic claims adjuster.  I learned  very quickly that there is no perfect  protected place to live.  Disasters include natural and manmade events.  The most important take from life changing events is how to survive.  That starts with not remaining a victim, looking up and looking forward no matter what your circumstances. 

[Ani Tefillah]

13 hours ago, Jayne said:

I've been asked a couple of times why do people live in hurricane areas if they know there are hurricanes.

If you don't live in the US, that's a logical questions.

Well, there are natural disaster areas all over the US.  Volcano/earthquake issues in Hawaii and California to say the least.  The west coast suffering every single year from horrible wild fires that devastate so much, The mid-west that suffers from horrible tornadoes, and the east coast/south that struggle with loss from hurricanes.

Here is a map of the expected flooding from Helene.  The green, the least expectations and the red, the most.  As you can see, the effects of Helene were VAST and in most places no where NEAR a coast line.  That's just what hurricanes [and tornadoes] do.

As of this morning, over 100+ dead AND over 600 that cannot be found because cell phone towers are down.  

My friend from North Carolina posted this morning that the Cajun Navy got there yesterday.  The Cajun Navy, from my state, is like a volunteer fire department.  But these guys volunteer in flooded areas to search and rescue and help as they can.  They are awesome guys and like fish, are accustomed to the water.

The damage was wider spread than most know.

It's not where you live.  It's where does the disaster go.

 

 

I hear you, and thank you for the info. 😊 However, I still can't get it why people live in such areas which there's yearly hurricanes and tornadoes, and especially if their houses are destroyed each year? Do the state give them money to rebuild their houses? 

[Neighbor]

3 hours ago, Ani Tefillah said:

Do the state give them money to rebuild their houses? 

Hi,  No though there is emergency benefits and extreme expense overall. The "state" does not  pay us to rebuild. And for the most part insurance, neither ordinary home insurance nor gov't backed flood insurance covers anywhere near the real cost of rebuilding.

Right now there is one in my family  recovering from five foot of water that went through their house. This is the  fourth time over the decades that they have done so. And the second time in 13 months. So why do that? Well the awesome joy of having the open Gulf of Mexico as your backyard, the ability to hop on the sailboat and go for an evening sail with the dolphins and a swim at places where there is no one else whatsoever.

It is the similar joy others find in  the mountains of North Carolina that has just been obliterated, or even parts of California that is  now burning, having earthquakes or suffering massive landslides. Or the Northwest of the USA with it's rather awful conditions now. Next the inland drought conditions will devastate yet other areas.

It is the same chance that all suffer no matter where on this earth they  are placed or choose to go. The end time signs, are coming rapidly it seems. These end times occurrences are more frequent and more destructive it seems too.

There really is no escaping it. One might be unaware of the extent of the happenings I suppose, but the happenings, they are coming  anyway, even now. And so we help each other best as we can. Yes we utilize government,  we utilize charities, we utilize church bodies, as we recognize the needs and as we can personally do. We also pray for one another as we share literally that cup of cool water in the name of our Lord Jesus.

To think one is immune from the events that are occurring, all over this earth, is to not be looking. Famine, pestilence, war, even pandemics and epidemics are the plight of all at this  time of the signs.  It is coming to a place near you soon if it has not already. So where is hope,  where is security? - It is in Jesus alone. It is all going to burn and then there will be a new heaven, a new earth, and a new Jerusalem.

[Neighbor]

Further note: Over a long lifetime I  personally have suffered upheaval numerous times. Yet all of it when it all flashes through my mind's eye highlights that God is awesome in His mercies, they are everlasting upon those that have been, or will still be, turned about from sin against Him to worship of Him through His Son Jesus as each  is made aware by the Holy Spirit. 

No matter the circumstance when asked how ya doin'?  One turned about by God can answer,"Better than I deserve!" All one need do is heed the call by the Holy spirit to turn about.

[Neighbor]

Just a little note about one small chunk of turf at Florida's nature coast. It was all at one time a limerock mining operation. What had been gentle flatland flood plains  were dug into up to 85 feet deep using swing line drag cranes forming channels that later were abandoned and then become small lots for sale. People, mostly  poorer retirees built little houses on them  for winter living.

Then a few people started building really big homes at ground level,( as some in my own family did). The storms came  and washed out many  homes. So  people built on mounds; and the storms came yet again. People built on stilts;  and the  storms came still. So people built on yet taller stilts ever bigger homes, and the storms they keep coming.  

And so do the people! Only it is the quite wealthy from all over the world, plus those USA northern retirees that are putting all their eggs in  one basket to get to live on the coast and see the sunset each day. What used to be a few are now the many what used to be comparatively small loses of a few individuals are now catastrophic in scope, affecting whole regions of people.

Same is true of the Blue Ridge mountains where many of us have bought that back up place to flee to or to retire at, building on sheer cliff sides with narrow trails hardly paved all, and  leading to nowhere easily. Many totally cut off now with landslides and floods  and dams that are threatened with failure.

All started decades ago more than half a century ago, with the fleeing from the harsh lands of the Northeast USA onto California by Veterans with VA benefits to utilize for  "tiny pink houses" with no money down. Then later on back across country to the deep South, and then halfway back to North Carolina.

Like so many ants on a trail "we" move about until something stomps on our anthill . Along the way God grabs onto his own predestined and foreknown by him, turning them about to knowing Jesus as Lord, God, and savior.

The turmoil(s)  seem to be part of the process to me. Got my attention and turned me about anyway.