The weather world-wide has been something to behold! Pictures from Australia show great dangers through the violence of rushing flood waters. Today even Brisbane, their third largest city, is under a flood alert as the waters sweep in from inundated areas. Snow and ice storms have shut down airports, including Atlanta. Now they are expecting 8-14 inches of snow in New York City! New England is expecting a foot of the white stuff. The snow will eventually turn back to water and flooding may enter the picture. Sunday morning here in Rockport we had a hail storm and hurricane force winds. The hail was mostly B.B. size so the wind blew it into snow bank-like formations along the highway. Some small tornadoes were definitely about.
There are also violent people bringing devastation to lives and fear to those in service positions. The awful killings and wounding of persons in Tucson show again how easy it is for violent people to go on a rampage. A Las Vegas dancer killed and mutilated his "girlfriend" who was also a dancer. In Omaha a school mourns the death of a vice-principal who was murdered by a seventeen-year old who later killed himself. In Cairo a policeman boarded a train and opened fire on known Christians. Days before a suicide bomber killed 21 Christians leaving a New Year's Mass in Alexandria. There is more but this is enough for now. Violent weather has many explanable reasons. People build in places subject to danger. They live along rivers and sea shores as we do here in Rockport. There is a risk always involved. Others build where the foundation is unsound, and mudslides can send their homes plummeting to the bottom.
The violence being acted out in people is another story. It comes from evil lurking about all the time. It comes from demented and tortured minds, often wounded by drugs and affected by movies and music promoting violence. Have you checked out the titles of some of the movies showing? It is incredible what Hollywood is putting out. They should be held partially responsible, TV is not far behind.
Violent weather and violent people. I will take the weather.
