Thursday, January 13, 2005

Dear God, would you please cut it out?

God, we are told, has a sense of humor. If so, it is a macabre sense of humor evidenced by mean, nasty practical jokes being played on Planet Earth. . .or else His attention has been distracted by rebellious life forms on another planet in another galaxy far away.

It's been twelve years since Hurricane Andrew (seems like yesterday to Floridians), and since then we've endured (I mean "we" in the universal sense of all humanity) forest fires, floods, melting and shrinking polar caps, four hurricanes that pounded Florida in a matter of weeks, record snowfall in the Rockies accompanied by avalanches, huge boulders smashing down on an Interstate Highway in Colorado and a railroad line near the Utah border, a monster Tsunami in Asia that obliterated more than 200,000 innocent people according to the latest guesstimates, heavy rains and mudslides in California that killed 28 people at last count, a 110-foot-diameter sinkhole in Florida that swallowed an entire house and parts of neighboring houses. . .the list goes on. The latest piece of evidence that strange things are happening on Planet Earth comes from Venice, Italy:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/01/13/venice.reut/index.html

Dear God, if you read blogs like this one, would you kindly restore this planet to order? This is all driving us crazy, which is a short trip for many of us.

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