"I don't think that God punishes people as such, but I do believe that He uses disasters such as this to get people's attention. And yes, good people suffer along with the bad. It's the nature of society."
So that's your deity? One who punishes good people because there are some bad ones? No thanks!
So, it's OK that NO is destroyed because there are some bad people there? You're OK with that? Never mind...
That is pretty much exactly what the bible says: In many instances, when the evil are punished the good die right along with them. The punishment is mostly what happens after death, and it is the same with the reward for goodness. People pointing to the hurricane as God's judgement are kind of missing the point. Being killed in a hurricane is more of an arrest than a punishment. If you aren't guilty, you go to a place better than any you have ever known. If you are guilty, you are thrown in a worse place than any you have ever known to await trial, and it only gets worse from there.
The Christian belief in God requires that you be ok with your own death as long as it is serving God's ends anyway. And the other side of that belief is that God will take care of good people after death.
But of the finger pointing and judging, Jesus did say in reference to one disaster that you had better spend your time preparing yourself for you own death rather than gloating over the death of others. In many cases, those who imagine themselves righteous and pleasing to God are as dead wrong as they can be.