[auggy]

" don't know when I'll start to see answers to such prayers. But I believe I will in my lifetime. So this was a bit startling to read."

I think today, your prayers are being answered.

[Strategerist]

1) Anyone believing natural disasters are specific punishments for given localities is an idiot.

2) Anyone actively praying for that sort of thing is deranged.

[commonguymd]

9 casualties reported by CNN due to flash flood so far.

Hope nobody really prays for this kind of thing.

[Quix]

You could be right.

I dare not presume so at this point. IF AND WHEN it happens routinely and the masses in the impacted nation respond to it as GOD DOING HIS THING--THEN I'll consider those prayers answered.

PLEASE See my post above about praying regarding such potentials--the 2nd one about that issue.