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Hurricane Harvey took out a number of OIL REFINERIES. One problem was FLOODING. This meant that backup equipment would not function because of flooding. Another concern is that of a refinery explosion such as has occurred in the past (Texas City - 1947 and 2005, Carson - 1985 and 2016). In such explosions surrounding areas might cause injuries and damage to surrounding property. Another concern is terrorism. Possible simple fix? Same used for Mississippi River. The force of water is extremely powerful. So how is it controlled - earthern levees and other works. Probably the minimum height for refineries might...

"An act of God" was responsible for U.S. Navy sailors entering Iranian waters, leading to their arrest at gunpoint, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday told Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members who detained the Americans. "Your job was excellent, interesting and timely and, in fact, we must consider this incident as an act of God, who brought Americans into our waters so they would be arrested through your timely action and in that manner with their hands held above their heads," Khamenei told the group in a face-to-face meeting, according to a report on the supreme leader's...

A major insurance company is accusing dozens of localities in Illinois of failing to prepare for severe rains and flooding in lawsuits that are the first in what could be a wave of litigation over who should be liable for the possible costs of climate change. Farmers Insurance filed nine class actions last month against nearly 200 communities in the Chicago area. It is arguing that local governments should have known rising global temperatures would lead to heavier rains and did not do enough to fortify their sewers and stormwater drains. The legal debate may center on whether an uptick...

What happened in Joplin, MO was not an Act of God.  It was a natural act of nature.  The storm came about because the weather patterns were right, but it would have happened there with or without the town of Joplin in its path.  The Act of God is was what came later. Joplin will never be the same.  Our hearts are broken, but not our spirit.  I am standing on Range Line road looking at what was my town.  I see where the Academy Sports used to stand and near it our favorite pizza place, Pizza By Stout.  Behind...

Last night, I hit a deer on a pitch dark road on the way home. Amazingly, the car was mostly unscathed and drivable and I could see the deer hit the road after it flew over the roof. The poor thing. Has any one has an accident like that? I think its an "act of god" type situation.

Janice, an African American woman, age 55, is all fired up against the Democrats in Louisiana. Said "I bet you those buses were running on election day!"

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — The rumble began high on the sheer cliff wall, like faraway thunder before a storm. A slab of granite as big as a railroad boxcar had let loose 1,300 feet up Glacier Point's age-worn face. The million-pound rock cartwheeled and shattered, tracing a plume of dust downward toward Peter Terbush. In his last earthbound moments, Terbush turned to a long-ago climbing lesson taught by his dad. As a little boy first astride a mountain, he learned to always protect a partner at the end of the rope. Never let go. The broad-shouldered 21-year-old held fast to...

[QX NOTE: some highlighting by author has been left off due to my time constraints. Please check the link for accurate highlighting. Some red and blue bold highlighting may be Qx added—not sure yet.] BIBLE CODE DIGEST MARCH/APRIL 2005 Continued The Tsunami By Moshe Aharon Shak Copyright © April 2005 by Moshe Aharon (Morris) Shak Introduction In looking for tsunami Bible codes, I almost drowned in a sea of tsunamis. There are four spellings of tsunami: and there may be other spellings to choose from as well. Since I was overwhelmed by the amount of information available, I limited my...

Subject: One for the Army Boys things Army Rangers are always taught: Keep your priorities in order Know when to act without hesitation A college professor, an avowed atheist and active in the ACLU, was teaching his class. He shocked several of his students when he flatly stated that once and for all he was going to prove there was no God. Addressing the ceiling he shouted: "GOD, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes!!!!!" The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten...

We're doing reasonably well in coping with the physical needs of the millions struck down by the tsunami, but we're making a mess of coming to terms with its significance. Belief in supernatural forces and other delusions hasn't helped. A widespread reaction, understandable among the illiterate, but reprehensible in the educated, is to allocate blame. Somebody has to be responsible. The common theme of the complaints is asking how God, Allah, or whatever his name is, could do this to us. Christians have a special bone to pick, since the blow fell at Christmas, when God might have been expected...

The controversial waxwork Nativity scene depicting David and Victoria Beckham as Joseph and Mary has been wrecked in an attack. Wax models of the stars, worth £50,000 each, suffered "extensive damage" when a young man attacked the display at Madame Tussauds. The exhibit, which caused uproar after church leaders called it blasphemous, has now been removed only days after it was unveiled. The attacker waited until other visitors had left the area and charged at the figures, kicking and punching them in a frenzied attack. The face on the Victoria model was damaged most but her husband's was also severely...

Written in sand Storms repeatedly open and close inlets on HatterasBY BILL GEROUX TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Sep 29, 2003From the air, it's easy to see how HurricaneIsabel ripped a new inlet between thevillage of Hatteras and the rest of the island, severing North Carolina Route 12. DON LONG/TIMES-DISPATCH From the air, it's easy to see how Hurricane Isabel ripped a new inlet between the village of Hatteras and the rest of the island, severing North Carolina Route 12. DON LONG/TIMES-DISPATCH HATTERAS, N.C. - The new inlet is a nasty piece of work. It is a gash one-third of a mile...

<p>SAN JOSE, Calif.(AP) - The space shuttle Columbia broke up in a mysterious area of the upper atmosphere once so little understood and difficult to study that scientists dubbed it the "ignorosphere."</p> <p>On Friday, NASA said it has asked outside atmospheric scientists for their opinion on whether some sort of electrical discharge could have occurred as the shuttle screamed toward touchdown at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.</p>