It's Thursday, September 29, 2022.

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

The massive storm known as Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida yesterday afternoon

and by the time the storm hit, it had sustained winds of 150 miles per hour.

It was listed as category 4.

That number, by the way, can almost assuredly just go up.

The highest category is category 5. And also, by the time the storm hit yesterday afternoon

it had tied as the fifth strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States of America.

Now of course in saying that we don't have

statistics going back for centuries but in so far and for so long as such records

have been maintained it's really clear this is a massively powerful and

dangerous storm. Now at this point I simply have to say we are not going to be able to

do comprehensive coverage or analysis of what took place in the wake of Ian because this is an unfolding story and one of the things we have learned is that when you have a massive natural development like this hurricane

the fact is that you simply can't take an

estimation of the storm until it has had the opportunity to pass, but we can

right now be very much aware of and in prayer for the people in the state of Florida in

particular who are vulnerable. Just think of Sanibel Island, Naples, Fort Myers,

Florida. Those are just some of the names of places that are believed at this point to have

born or to bear the strongest impact of the storm.

Now let's just remind ourselves of the fact that hurricanes are massive storm systems and

they live on low pressure and high temperatures. And by the time you add all of that

together just remember that the Gulf of Mexico that of course in the United States, stretches all the way from the East

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