It was on this date in 2013 that terrible bushfires devastated Tasmania. The fires began on the 3rd, but this was when devastation was severe. It was determined that a record heat wave and extremely dry conditions contributed to this catastrophe. Thousands of people were evacuated, and new record temperatures were reached. Jeremiah 23:29 ESV Is not my word like […]

It was on this date in 1839 that a hurricane moved from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to offshore New England. This was a very unusual hurricane in that it produced snow in the Catskill Mountains of New York. For more info: http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_history/index.php?m=8&d=30&y=2011 http://www.examiner.com/article/weather-history-august-30-record-temps-storms-fog-snow-tropics-floods

Tupelo, Mississippi is famous because it is Elvis Presley’s birthplace, but we can be glad that this date in history did not change all that.  On this date in 1936,  an F5 tornado hit Tupelo, Mississippi.  About 216 people were killed, but one-year-old Elvis managed to survive this tornado that practically decimated this town.  For more info: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tornadoes-devastate-tupelo-and-gainesville http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tupelo%E2%80%93Gainesville_tornado_outbreak

I would say that most of us remember this hurricane quite vividly.  Hurricane Katrina had formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, and it southern Florida as a Category 1 hurricane.  But it wasn’t done.  It strengthened over the Gulf of Mexico, and it became a Category 5.  On this date in 2005, Hurricane Katrina made its second hit […]