Hurricane Milton tracker: Tampa Bay in path of “ferocious” storm
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
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Summary
Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on the west coast of Florida late today. This area is especially vulnerable to storm surges due to its shallow waters. The storm is putting a population of more than 5.9 million people at risk. We have grappled this week with the perennial question: How can an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God allow the enormous suffering we face in this world he made? Today, let’s turn the question around by asking: What practical difference does it make in our hardest days that our God is all-knowing, all-loving, and all-powerful?
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Wednesday, October 9th, 2024. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum, co-founder, and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:17.1 | Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on the west coast of Florida late today. |
| 0:22.4 | The National Hurricane Center warned, |
| 0:24.7 | Milton has the potential to be one of the most destructive hurricanes on record for West Central Florida. |
| 0:30.6 | According to the Associated Press, the ferocious storm could land a once-in-a-century direct hit on Tampa and St. Petersburg. This area is |
| 0:39.7 | especially vulnerable to storm searches due to its shallow waters. The storm is putting a population |
| 0:45.6 | of more than 5.9 million people at risk. I am writing today about Hurricane Milton with more |
| 0:52.5 | personal engagement than I did when Hurricane |
| 0:55.0 | Helene struck a few days ago. |
| 0:57.0 | This, despite the fact that Helene wrought terrible devastation across a much larger area |
| 1:03.2 | than is likely with Milton as it marches across the Florida Peninsula and out into the Atlantic. |
| 1:09.1 | Find a link in today's episode notes to my recent website article, God and Hurricane Helene, |
| 1:15.4 | thinking biblically about natural disasters. |
| 1:18.4 | I feel the same intensity when I respond to news about Israel's ongoing war with enemies |
| 1:24.0 | that seek its destruction. |
| 1:25.3 | This, despite the fact that the death toll from this conflict, |
| 1:29.7 | is lower than the casualty count from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The reason in both cases is the |
| 1:35.7 | same. People I love are personally affected by Hurricane Milton and the war in the Middle East. |
| 1:41.8 | I have family members in Florida, some of my best friends in the world, |
| 1:46.1 | live in Israel. It is human to respond to the cacophony of each day's news by filtering it through |
| 1:51.9 | the prism of our personal interests and relationships. We cannot care as fully for people we don't know |
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