It's Thursday, October 10, 2024.

I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, one of the things that makes our time different than virtually any age before

is that we now see these giant storms coming.

We actually see them forming. We have satellite images. We have all kinds of

radar images and we have the maps and the computer modeling that tells us not

only what is happening but what is likely to happen and that's why for days we have

been watching after Hurricane Helene and its devastation we've been watching Hurricane

Milton as it was forming out in the very warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and now headed directly for the Gulf Coast to Florida.

And as we know, the forecast was pretty firm just going into even the last two or three days about what was

likely to be the direction of the storm the general area of the impact of the

harshest part of the storm and the severity of the storm itself. And we are talking about a

remarkable storm. It went from one to four and then to five on the saffers

Simpson scale of the severity and strength of hurricanes and the forecaster said that the

storm would likely hit the Tampa Bay area and it would likely hit as a category 3 storm.

But as I'm recording right now, it is too early to know exactly how the

storm has progressed across its own path. And just exactly what has happened, but we do know,

this is a storm that was expected it was indeed

predicted to have catastrophic impacts and thus our hearts are with the people

They're in central Florida all the way from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic coast.

One of the remarkable sentences about Hurricane Milton is that it was expected to hit the West

Coast of Florida as a category 3 hurricane and it was expected to exit the East Coast of Florida

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