Should have taken the chopper!

I sometimes wonder at the people that claim God is punishing us with natural disasters. Our planet is so complicated a place that something somewhere is bound to go wrong. Unfortunately, someone is usually there in destruction's path.

Most of us here in the northeast will go home and begin to put things away that can blow away, buy up food and generally prepare for the worst. I'm not saying that we shouldn't. In fact I'm reminded of the joke about God sending a car, boat and helicopter to save the person from the top of their house and the person meeting God in heaven and asking why. God often sends us the means to our salvation, but we overlook those events and wonder why.

So the message today is be prepared and look out for your neighbor that may need some help this weekend.

God bless.

Strange Days?

So over the weekend we had the possibility of tornadoes; we experienced an earthquake on Tuesday; hurricane Irene is on the way for this weekend; and Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple. The world is truly coming to an end.

But again I survived a tornado in 1982 (yes they do sound like freight trains); two earthquakes while in San Diego (an 8.3 and 8.9 about 5 hours apart); hurricane Fran in 1996 (category 1 when the eye passed less than a mile from my apartment in NC); and I survive the firing of Steve Jobs in '85.

So I guess I'm pretty well set.