It's Tuesday, October 4th, 2022. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The fact is that we live life from a human scale, and that means that even with the latest technologies,

it is often some time before we understand what has gone on in the world around us.

That is especially emphatically true for the people of Florida, particularly Southwest Florida,

in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. We're talking about just a few days

ago, but for many people, especially there in that region of Florida, it is as if

if the world has suddenly changed. And in a big sense it has. This reminds us of the massive

power of weather systems and in particular the giant storms known as

hurricanes at least in this part of the globe. These hurricanes have historically changed

the flow of rivers. They have changed coastlines and have altered landscapes and of course

they have also taken many lives. If you look at Hurricane

Ian, we now know for example that in the region closest to the storm's

landfall, about a year's worth of precipitation, fell in a matter of just hours.

Now, there is no place on planet Earth that can handle that very well.

We're talking about a massive weather system that will leave a massive imprint, not only on the Florida

coastline and on those affected communities, but on the human beings whose lives were directly

affected by this storm.

And of course the death toll continues to rise.

As of last night, the death toll was officially 103.

Now many people wonder how in the world that kind of number is actually ascertained or determined

That number does not mean that a hundred and three human beings lost their lives in the active course of the storm.

It does mean that at least at this point,

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