It's Tuesday, August 6, 2024.

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

worldview.

Weather is an amazing thing.

Not only is it true that it can be different as you look at the globe on one side of the

Earth as compared to the other, it can be very different within a very short amount of space, a very short amount of distance.

And so much of America today was basking in a warm late summer day,

while parts of Florida and Southern Coastal Georgia were struggling

with an unprecedented amount of rain.

And all of this came, of course, because of the development just in the last few days of a tropical depression that became a

hurricane, a category one hurricane named Debbie that hit the Big Bend of Florida just in the last 24 hours.

It has now progressed slowly across the northern reach

of the Florida Peninsula, reaching the Jacksonville area

and now moving also slowly into not only Southern Georgia but

also parts beyond. The storm still has its name Debbie is no longer a hurricane

it's been downgraded to a tropical storm, pretty quickly may be

downgraded to a tropical depression once again. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't pose a great danger.

Because we are looking at warnings of 10, 20, and as of late last night up to 30 inches of rain.

And that's because even as we think about hurricanes, primarily in terms of the wind, the storm, and if you are living on the

coast the dreaded tidal surge, the reality is that a storm like Debbie poses

as greatest danger not so much on the tidal surge, and not so much from the wind,

but by the fact that the larger atmospheric conditions are causing the storm to move very, very

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