IN SUCH AN HOUR AS THIS

DAYS OF DESTRUCTION

Storms ~ Rains ~ Snow~ Tornadoes

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Today´s World

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So (as the result of the Messiah's intervention) they shall reverently fear the name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him and put him to flight (for He will come like a rushing stream which the breath of the Lord drives).

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Violent Storms Bring Damage to Central Miss.

Numerous mobile homes were destroyed and damage was reported to roofs and vehicles. Along one street, it appeared that only one house escaped without major damage and a church was heavily damaged, with its roof ripped away. Downed power lines were draped across yards and roads. Several vehicles were smashed by fallen trees.

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DENVER, Colo.

A powerful snowstorm swept across Colorado knocking out power for thousands of people, closing an 80-mile stretch of a major highway and triggering rock slides in the foothills. Up to 20 inches of snow fell in the mountains.

A man was shoveling snow in Denver before dawn when the transformers began to crackle and die. Dozens of schools across the state canceled classes or started late; at least three Denver schools were closed because they had no electricity. Steady rain sent two rockslides tumbling onto Colorado 119 in Boulder Canyon northwest of Denver, forcing the closure of one lane and damaging a car. In southwestern Colorado, rain was believed to have triggered two rockslides in San Miguel County Sunday, including one that shut down one lane of Colorado 145 near Telluride.

Westbound I-70 between Copper Mountain and Vail Pass was closed for 21/2 hours late Sunday after multiple accidents, prompting the American Red Cross to open a shelter for stranded travelers in Silverthorne. Earlier Sunday, traffic crawled on eastbound I-70 approaching the Eisenhower Tunnel as several tractor-trailers jackknifed.

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The Denver foothills and Vail reopened early Nov.15, after a fast-moving storm dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas and stranded hundreds in the mountains. Wind gusts hit 62 mph on Berthoud Pass, and 240 stranded motorists sought refuge in a Red Cross shelter at Silverthorne Recreation Center.

The Weather Service said 8 inches of snow fell in two to three hours in Black Hawk. Grand Lake in the north-central mountains reported 16 inches of snow. Up to 2 feet of snow fell in portions of northern Rocky Mountains since the storm began.

In Frisco west of Silverthorne, at least 800 students were temporarily stranded at a middle school when transportation home was delayed because of the storm, and the students then waited for hours before getting out later.

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For this (forgiveness) let everyone who is godly pray ~ pray to You (God) in a time when you may be found; surely when the great waters (of trial) overflow, they shall not reach (the spirit in him).

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East Coast Floods

ALSTEAD, N.H

Prolonged, heavy rain caused flooding from North Carolina to Maine over the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, knocking out electricity, weakening dams and making roads impassable.

At least 10 people died in flooding or in rain-related crashes, including two young people (each one 20-years-old) were killed in New Hampshire when a car apparently drove off a washed-out bridge into floodwaters, officials said. At least one other person was seen being swept away in a swift-flowing river. In Hoosick Falls, N.Y., a 6-year-old slipped into the rain-swollen River. His mother's boyfriend, dove in to save the boy, and witnesses watched helplessly as the two bobbed in the swift-moving rapids before being swept under a bridge and disappearing. Their bodies were found. In Pennsylvania, a 19- year old woman died when she tried to drive through a flooded roadway. In New Jersey, a 2-year-old boy, died from head injuries after his parents' car went out of control on a highway. Rain was also cited as a factor in traffic accidents over the weekend that killed three people in Maine.

A surge over Warren Lake dam in Alstead, N.H., sent a 4- or 5-foot wall of water downstream during the weekend, damaging at least a half dozen bridges and washing away several homes.

The National Weather Service reported that more than 5 inches of rain fell in Wilmington, N.C. North Carolina's Brunswick and Pender counties saw between 7 and 10 inches of rain in four days. Allentown, Pa., received 10 inches between Friday and Saturday. Rainfall also totaled 10 inches in parts of Connecticut and 8 inches in parts of Maine. The state's Department of Transportation reported 41 roads closed. The most severe flooding in New Hampshire was in and around Keene, where some major roads were under as much as 4 to 6 feet of water.

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The Gov. of New Hampshire said the floods were the worst the state had experienced in a quarter-century, and he sought a federal disaster declaration.

In Greenfield, Mass., where floods wrecked 40 trailers in a mobile home park, the mayor said repairs would cost more than $1 million. The flooding damaged a bridge and a dam, washed out a road, cracked sewer mains and left at least 70 residents homeless.

From Friday through Sunday, storms dumped as much as 10 inches of rain on New England and the Mid-Atlantic States. In New Hampshire, Hinsdale got 10.8 inches and Keene 10.5. Officials said a dozens houses were washed away. Some residents found they did not have much to return to. Police in Alstead discovered that the flood had washed away their station. "All of our police records, computers, weapons everything that was in there is gone. It's destroyed.

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Heavy Snow Snarls Europe

A storm that dumped heavy snow from the Czech Republic to Italy created headaches for commuters, causing dozens of road crashes in Austria and stranding hundreds of motorists overnight in northern France.

Authorities said at least 11 trucks jackknifed in the province of Lower Austria making many roadways impassible, and the snow appeared to be a factor in a crash that killed a driver in the town of Mistelbach. Snow-slicked highways were closed for several hours in parts of northern Germany, while homeless shelters in the northern Netherlands set up extra beds.

Four trucks collided on the Czech Republic's main highway linking Prague to the southern city of Brno, blocking traffic. In Slovakia, officials warned of a heightened avalanche risk in some areas. In Croatia, heavy snow and icy rain prompted officials to close down local roads, cutting off access to dozens of central villages. Snow also created havoc with trains in Hungary.

In Britain, icy conditions prompted officials to close roads and cancel train service across a wide swath of eastern England. In France, hundreds of people were blocked overnight in the Calvados region in western Normandy, where a highway was closed in both directions.

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WRIGHT, Wyo.

Residents had just five minutes warning before a tornado tore into a mobile home park, killing two people and injuring about a dozen others. Dozens of homes were destroyed. One person was still listed as missing. The twister touched down Friday afternoon in this coal-mining town of 1,500 people. It was on the ground an estimated 10 to 15 minutes, destroying 40 to 50 mobile homes, scattering metal siding, insulation, home furnishings and debris throughout the town.

"I've seen this stuff on TV, but I've never seen it in real life," Campbell County Under sheriff said. "It's just total devastation of homes. There's just nothing left. There are some homes that weren't even touched, but there's camper trailers turned upside down, and there's property and valuables strewn everywhere."

Residents had about five minutes warning. "The warning was going off just as it hit from what I understand." "I talked to one couple and they can remember flying through the air and screaming at each other." And then they woke up."

One person was found dead at the scene and a second died at the hospital. Two people were in fair condition at the hospital, and five others had been treated and released. A few others were treated at the scene. Wright is about 100 miles northeast of Casper in northeastern Wyoming.

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Little Rock, ARK.

Storms moving across the southern Plains brought winds strong enough to rip off roofs and blow apart barns. Thousands of people lost power in Arkansas, and a lightning-sparked fire killed a man.

Southern Oklahoma had baseball-sized hail and surrounding states saw heavy rain as the front moved east across the Mississippi River.

Around Little Rock, the high wind rolled over a mobile home and damaged about a dozen other homes, and trees and power lines were down around the state. In northwestern Arkansas a 78-mph gust was reported in the northeastern part of the state.

In the southwestern town of Ashdown, an 83-year-old city councilman died after lightning struck his house and started a fire. His wife was injured but survived.

A couple in the northeastern town of Tilton suffered cuts and bruises after they left their mobile home and took shelter in their vehicle. The storm blew out the vehicle's windows, but the trailer was destroyed.

Winds as high as 80 mph took off roofs and otherwise damaged homes in Bolivar and Panola counties. The rough weather was caused by a storm system moving from the northwest ahead of a cold front. The main storm system was moving into the rest of the South on Thursday afternoon, and other thunderstorms were possible from another system expected to be centered in Missouri.

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ST. MARY, Mo.

Powerful tornadoes ripped across southern Missouri and southern Illinois during the night, destroying homes along a path of more than 20 miles and killing two people. Several other people were injured as the storm system pounded the central Mississippi Valley with hailstones as big as softballs, high wind and torrential rain. It was not immediately clear how many tornadoes struck the area straddling the Mississippi River from Missouri into Illinois. The twisters were part of a long line of stormy weather that stretched from the southern Plains up the Ohio Valley.

A twister caught a pickup truck on the highway and hurled it beneath a roadside propane tank, killing both people in the vehicle, Lakenan said. The wreckage of the pickup was wedged beneath the tank.

Also near St. Mary, mobile homes were tossed and a brick ranch house was split in half. Several people were injured and five or six homes were destroyed and another five or six were badly damaged.

Across the Mississippi River in Illinois, a tornado damaged several homes and businesses in the small town of Fults, and injured one person, and another person was injured by flying glass in Bremen, Ill. just south of St. Louis, high wind struck a new subdivision, destroying seven homes. Five people were hurt.

The Missouri Highway Patrol said the tornado near St. Mary had wind of 113 mph to 206 mph. Softball-sized hail caused more damage and heavy rain prompted flash flood warnings in southern Missouri. The heaviest rainfall was 3 to 4 inches about 100 miles east of St. Louis in Illinois.

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SEDALIA, Mo.

Severe storms across the Midwest packed winds that knocked over airplanes, ripped roofs off homes and spawned tornadoes that killed three people.

A twister, which roared up to a half mile wide, killed a woman seeking shelter in her mobile home and displaced about 150 residents in western Missouri. Six people were injured and two were missing after the tornado cut a path more than 16 miles long through the town of Sedalia.

A 23-year-old male watched his neighbor die when her mobile home collapsed on her south of Sedalia. "She went in there," the man said of the victim, and "the trailer came down right on top of her." The Sheriff described the damage he saw as "large amounts of power lines down, many buildings that are simply no longer there, and a tremendous amount of debris."

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Kansas City

Storms rolled through northeastern Kansas earlier in the day with fierce winds that lifted a cargo container off the airfield at the Kansas City International Airport, authorities said. At the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, some private airplanes tied down on the airfield were "spun around."

The University of Kansas in Lawrence canceled classes Monday after 60 percent of its buildings were damaged by the storm, school officials said. The roof of the nondenominational Danforth Chapel, which has been the site for thousands of weddings on campus, was torn off almost completely.

A 23-year-old male was asleep in his upstairs Lawrence apartment when a sudden drop in pressure woke him about 8 a.m. "It felt like I was in the tornado, if that's what it was," he said.

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The storms followed powerful tornadoes that ripped across southern Missouri and southern Illinois Saturday night, destroying homes along a path of more than 20 miles and killing a married couple whose pickup truck was blown off a rural road about 80 miles south of St. Louis, officials said.

During the night, several people were injured as the storm system pounded the central Mississippi Valley with hailstones as big as softballs, high wind and torrential rain.

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EVANSVILLE, Ind.

At least 17 people were killed and about 200 injured early Sunday when a tornado ripped through Kentucky and Indiana as rescuers assisted trapped residents and about 25,000 were without power, local officials said. The death toll was expected to rise.

"All of the sudden you could just hear a freight train coming, and it basically just took everything in its path." At the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park on the southeast side of Evansville, Ind., 12 people were confirmed dead, as well as five others in Warrick County, Ind. Those killed in Warrick County include a teenage girl and a small child who died as they took shelter with their family in their modular home. 'It was immediately in the path of the tornado.' There are several hundred houses" that were completely destroyed.

The worst damage hit the south and northeast parts of the county. "We've had considerable damage. ... We're trying to assess all the damage and take it from there." About 200 emergency workers were called to the trailer park. "We're treating the trailer park as a mass disaster area."

The chief deputy coroner said at least 12 people were killed in the mobile home park. She said she expected the death toll to grow because an unknown number of dead and injured are believed still trapped in debris at the park. "They were in trailer homes, homes that were just torn apart by the storm, so they're just now getting in there trying to find people." "It's just terrible."

An Indiana Homeland Security spokeswoman said another five people were confirmed dead in adjoining Warrick County, east of Evansville, where the Ohio River city of Newburgh was struck. Bright said that about 100 homes were destroyed and 125 others were damaged at the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park, where there were about 320 occupied homes.

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SAN FRANCISCO

A powerful storm plowed through Northern California, causing mudslides and widespread flooding and snarling holiday traffic from Sonoma to Monterey.

Evacuations were encouraged along the Napa River and hillside homeowners were urged to collect valuables, gather emergency supplies and identify escape routes. Nearly all small creeks and streams in Sonoma County had overflowed their banks, closing some roads.

Firefighters in the Sonoma area rescued two people from a mobile home park, where 4 feet of rushing water washed at least one home off its foundation, and were searching for a third person.

The Russian River at the Sonoma County town of Guerneville could rise as high as 43 feet, after a second storm that is expected to hit Sunday. Flood level is 31 feet. The two storms could add as much as 6 inches of rain to the already waterlogged region by the end of the weekend. More than 2 feet of snow was forecast in the Sierra Nevada. One woman suffered a broken leg when a mudslide destroyed her home in Santa Rosa . It took firefighters nearly an hour to free her from the mud and debris.

Flash flooding and landslides closed Interstate 5 both ways over the Siskiyou Summit near the Oregon line between Hilt and Ashland, Ore., and U.S. Highway 101 was closed by fallen trees and mud south of Crescent City.

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BISMARCK, N.D.

An early winter storm that blasted in from the Rockies dumped heavy snow across the region, knocking out power to thousands and forcing National Guard soldiers to rescue stranded motorists.

Up to 2 feet of snow had fallen in parts of North Dakota, with winds gusting to 50 mph. A blizzard warning was in effect for the Devils Lake area in the north-central part of the state. In Wyoming, schools in a number of communities were either closed or delayed because of snowfall and blackouts.

"It is, on our records, probably one of the earliest ones, as far as our recorded history goes, in 126, 130 years," said a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Bismarck.

The snowfall caused trees to snap or sag into power lines, sparking widespread outages. As much as 11 inches of snow had fallen in southeastern Montana. Billings had received 10.8 inches. "It's really treacherous - heavy, deep snow. Visibility is just really poor. It's so heavy that vehicles just can't push through it," North Dakota Highway Patrol said. Ten National Guard soldiers with heavy equipment joined crews from the state Transportation Department and the Highway Patrol in rescuing stranded people.

The storm came just a few days after North Dakota had temperatures in the 90s. Warmer weather was forecast to return in the coming days.

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CANNELBURG, Ind.

Amish farmers tracked down missing cattle and surveyed what remained of their barns Wednesday as residents across three Midwestern states began cleaning up the debris left behind by a deadly storm and its nearly three dozen tornadoes. One tornado swept through two counties between Evansville and Bloomington as an F3, with winds of 158-206 mph, leaving at least 60 homes uninhabitable.

The area's Amish and Mennonite communities sustained some of the worst of the damage when the tornado hit. They lost two schools, about 10 businesses, 25 barns and scores of animals. But no deaths were reported there, and it was clear people had taken precautions.

Typically, about 100 people would have been inside the nearby K & K Industries factory building trusses about the time the tornado hit, but the managers sent everyone home ahead of the storm. The tornado blew the factory apart, leaving boards strewn about like toothpicks. "It's a miracle that everybody got out of there."

A tornado killed 23 people in the Evanston area, about 60 miles south of Cannelburg, and less than a week later, nine tornadoes swept through central Iowa, killing one.

In western Kentucky, roofs were caved in walls blown out and entire buildings blown off foundations in Madisonville after an F3 tornado ripped a 17-mile path across the county. Sixty miles to the southwest, near Benton, a 63-year-old man was killed when the storm blew his mobile home off its foundation and the home rolled and caught fire. The storms also brought downpours, flooding some streets and low-lying areas. A teenager in Indiana died after her car skidded on a water-covered road and overturned east of Indianapolis.

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BOSTON

Thousands of people across the Northeast had no electricity for alarm clocks and air conditioners Monday following waves of violent thunderstorms. Wind gusting to 80 mph knocked trees onto power lines, lightning started fires and torrential rain flooded streets in parts of eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, southeastern New York, Connecticut and eastern Massachusetts.

Boston's South Shore was hit particularly hard, with severe flooding. "Half of the city is under water," Brockton police dispatcher said. "We have reports of water going into basements all over the city. We've had people stuck in cars all over the city. We even had to tow a police cruiser out of there with water flowing over the hood." The mayor of Stamford, Conn., said the damage was the worst since an ice storm in 1973. "We've never seen anything like it."

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As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For just as in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the very day when Noah went into the ark. And they did not know or understand until the flood came and swept them all away ~ so will be the coming of the Son of Man. (Gen. 6:5-8; 7:6-24; Matthew 24:38-39)

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