Posted on 03/28/2013 9:48:55 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A landslide on Whidbey Island in Washington state pushed one home 200 feet out into the water and forced the evacuation of about 20 people, officials said.
Early Wednesday morning a 1,000-foot-wide section of a cliff on the island fell away, blocking the beach-side road below, The Seattle Times reported.
Police evacuated about a dozen people from homes below the cliff by boat because of the road blockage, KOMO-TV, Seattle, reported.
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G: Lincoln (when it’s too big to blame Bush ;-)
It honestly doesn’t rain as much as people think.
But we keep that a secret so more Californians won’t move here.
ok
Another article from the next county over. I’ve played bridge in this exact community at the firehouse there. Amazing. Hopefully no one I know is affected.
http://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/home-destroyed-in-coupeville-landslide-others-threatened/article_56e39536-971f-11e2-94e0-0019bb2963f4.html
And more reinforcements arriving. It's simply awe-inspiringly idiotic and embarassing to try to link natural disasters to some sort of punishment by a deity. This isn't the 10th century, and a lot of things that happen in the Old Testament show no evidence of actually happening in the real world of today. It's not any different than blaming the volcano eruption on not sacrificing enough virgins.
And because some locality voted for Obama by a couple of percentage points? Seriously?
And what if the guy who owned the house that fell off the cliff was a rock-ribbed Republican and Christian? Is God's aim THAT bad?
And of course nobody brings this nonsense at all when Alabama and Mississippi get hit by the largest tornado outbreak ever known.
Or that 6,000 people were drowned by a hurricane in Texas in 1900, back in the good 'ol days before legalized abortion and gay marriage.
There's no deeper meaning or message in any of this except that erosion happens and if you build your house close to the sea for the few, it might fall in. That's it.
That was not just reinforcements, you brought in the calvary. Good post
Well, you’ve been misquoted but it already hit the news cycle and now you will have to spend the rest of your days on FR trying to set the record straight.
Actually, I think we did not so much pick up on your comments as used them for a jumping point for side discussion.
Either way, God does not create natural disasters as punishment. He set it all in motion and those floods and huuricanes and whatever are just a part of what keeps it all in balance. We are just guests here.
Conversely, man is not powerful enough to wreck the place. The best we can do is muck it up for ourselves. No matter what we do, in time it repairs itself.
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