A Kingdom Without End
Larry Wynn
Daniel 2:31
I.INTRODUCTION
A.USE ILLUSTRATION ON BILLY GRAHAM/HURRICANE ANDREW.
ILLUSTRATION: For the first time, a storm passed directly over the National Hurricane Warning Service Coral Gables, and it ripped the radar array from the top of the six-story structure. The center's anemometer was destroyed shortly after it recorded 164-mile-per-hour winds with wind gusts off the scale. The winds that blasted the tip of Florida left thirty-three people dead, destroyed more than sixty-three thousand homes, left 1.3 million people without water or electricity, and did more than $30 billion in damage. But it didn't stop there.
Twenty-three years earlier, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, a group of people were preparing to have a ''hurricane party'' in the face of a storm name Camille. Were they ignorant of the dangers? Could they have been overconfident? Did they let their egos and pride influence their decision? We'll never know.
What we do know is that the wind was howling outside the posh Richelieu Apartments when Police Chief Jerry Peralta pulled up sometime after dark. Facing the beach less than 250 feet from the surf, the apartments were directly in the line of danger. A man with a drink in his hand came out on the second- floor balcony and waved. Peralta yelled up. ''You all need to clear out of here as quickly as you can. The storm's getting worse.'' But as others joined the man on the balcony, they just laughed at Peralta's order to leave.
It was 10:15 p.m. when the front wall of the storm cams ashore. Scientist clocked Camille's wind speed at more than 205 miles per hour, the strongest on record. Raindrops hit with the force of bullets, and waves off the Gulf Coast crested between twenty-to and twenty-eight feet high.
News reports later showed that the worst damage came at the little settlement of motels, go-go bars, and gambling houses known as Pass Christian, Mississippi, where some twenty people wer ...
Larry Wynn
Daniel 2:31
I.INTRODUCTION
A.USE ILLUSTRATION ON BILLY GRAHAM/HURRICANE ANDREW.
ILLUSTRATION: For the first time, a storm passed directly over the National Hurricane Warning Service Coral Gables, and it ripped the radar array from the top of the six-story structure. The center's anemometer was destroyed shortly after it recorded 164-mile-per-hour winds with wind gusts off the scale. The winds that blasted the tip of Florida left thirty-three people dead, destroyed more than sixty-three thousand homes, left 1.3 million people without water or electricity, and did more than $30 billion in damage. But it didn't stop there.
Twenty-three years earlier, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, a group of people were preparing to have a ''hurricane party'' in the face of a storm name Camille. Were they ignorant of the dangers? Could they have been overconfident? Did they let their egos and pride influence their decision? We'll never know.
What we do know is that the wind was howling outside the posh Richelieu Apartments when Police Chief Jerry Peralta pulled up sometime after dark. Facing the beach less than 250 feet from the surf, the apartments were directly in the line of danger. A man with a drink in his hand came out on the second- floor balcony and waved. Peralta yelled up. ''You all need to clear out of here as quickly as you can. The storm's getting worse.'' But as others joined the man on the balcony, they just laughed at Peralta's order to leave.
It was 10:15 p.m. when the front wall of the storm cams ashore. Scientist clocked Camille's wind speed at more than 205 miles per hour, the strongest on record. Raindrops hit with the force of bullets, and waves off the Gulf Coast crested between twenty-to and twenty-eight feet high.
News reports later showed that the worst damage came at the little settlement of motels, go-go bars, and gambling houses known as Pass Christian, Mississippi, where some twenty people wer ...
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