"Derecho" Slams Washington D.C.

Probably just a coincidence here (sarcasm)...but isn't it interesting that Washington D.C. was hit by an earthquake (VERY rare) last year as our leaders were dispatched to Israel to threaten them to give up more land for peace to the Palestinians?

In the same way, it's probably just a coincidence that all these fires and heat have swept the country since Obama became our first president to confirm, ordain and encourage the perversion of homosexuality.  Gay Pride reception right in the White House....really?

Yesterday, a rare 'Derecho' hit the D.C. area and killed 5 people and wiped out power to millions...also just a coincidence.

The system of thunderstorms that ravaged the Washington, D.C., area over the weekend, leaving 1.2 million homes without power and killing at least five people, was not only destructive — it was also rare.

Known as a derecho, the string of storms combined intense lightning and rain with hurricane-force gusts as it swept from the Midwest into the mid-Atlantic on Friday night. Meteorologists blamed the violent weather on the prolonged 100-plus temperatures that blanketed the eastern United States last week.

Derechos typically form when an atmospheric disturbance lifts the warm air in regions experiencing intense heat, causing thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds to develop, AccuWeather meteorologist Brian Edwards said. Traveling at an average speed of 60 miles per hour, Friday's storm took 12 hours to cover more than 700 miles before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.

By Monday, power had been restored in more than half of the homes affected by the storms in the Washington metropolitan area. But utilities predict that the roughly 660,000 homes still without power may remain so for the next several days as the heat wave continues unabated.

Ken Barber, vice president for customer solutions at Dominion Virginia Power, told ABC's affiliate WJLA that the utility is facing the "biggest non-hurricane outage in our 100 year history."

All told, about 3 million homes lost power, 12 people lost their lives, and another 20 people were injured. The governors of Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia, and the mayor of Washington, D.C., declared states of emergency.

Here; http://abcnews.go.com/US/derecho-storm-ravaged-washington-area/story?id=16696593

Holy spanish-word-for-'straight'!!  That's one crazy derecho...and it is really rare...and it was the biggest non-hurricane outage in Virigina Power's history!  That's a whole lot of folks sitting in 100 degree heat with no AC or refrigeration.

But still..not one person in 50 will stop to wonder about all the EXTREME WEATHER happening all over the country and whether it could be the result of God withdrawing His hand of protection....they are going to be too busy pouring over the details of the Tom Cruise divorce.