this hurricane is a blessing
Without the context, it’s very misleading. What Beck clearly (as opposed to the way the headlines repeated ad nauseum applied) meant was that the situation was similar to how it was a “blessing” for former Phillies first-baseman John Kruk to get hit by a baseball in the crotch. (When they were checking him out, they discovered he had testicular cancer.)
Thats like saying the tornadoes we had here in April were a blessing..