Days of Disaster Continue

Deadly Twister Rips Up Iowa
Sunday afternoon, one of the deadlier tornadoes in Iowa history chewed up much of the this proud, farming community, killing four people in Parkersburg and two in nearby New Hartford.

“This town is not just torn up. It’s gone,” stressed Butler County Sheriff Jason Johnson.
Johnson’s home was one of more than 400 damaged here. Another 220 buildings were destroyed including the town’s high school, its sole grocery store and its only gas station.

Kansas has more than 80 tornadoes over four days
More than 80 tornadoes were reported in Kansas in a week of back-to-back storms that produced large hail, damaging winds, deadly lightning, record rainfall and floods.
Four people are believed to have died in the storms, officials said. Several injuries were also reported.

US on track to break record for tornadoes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Another week, another rumbling train of tornadoes that obliterates entire city blocks, smashing homes to their foundations and killing people even as they cower in their basements.

With the year not even half done, 2008 is already the deadliest tornado year in the United States since 1998 and seems on track to break the U.S. record for the number of twisters in a year, according to the National Weather Service. Also, this year's storms seem to be unusually powerful.

But like someone who has lost all his worldly possessions to a whirlwind, meteorologists cannot explain exactly why this is happening.

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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are but the beginning of the birth pains......44 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.