{"id":434,"date":"2008-05-04T06:04:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=434"},"modified":"2008-05-04T06:04:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T14:04:40","slug":"myanmar-usa-severe-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/myanmar-usa-severe-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar, USA, & Severe Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hurricane-Gordon-2006\"
\nHurricane Gordon Hit the Azores and Western Europe in 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

The following item was in the news this morning:<\/p>\n

\n

Deadly Cyclone Pummels Myanmar<\/h3>\n
\n

By Aung Hla Tun, Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Posted: 2008-05-04 09:00:05<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

YANGON (May 4) More than 200 people have been killed in military-ruled Myanmar by a Category 3 cyclone that ripped through Yangon and the Irrawaddy delta, where it flattened two towns, officials and state media said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Packing winds of 190 km (120 miles) per hour when it hit on Saturday morning, Cyclone Nargis devastated the former Burma’s leafy main city, littering the streets with overturned cars, fallen trees and debris from battered buildings.<\/p>\n

“Utter war zone,” one Yangon-based diplomat said in an email to Reuters in Bangkok. “Trees across all streets. Utility poles down. Hospitals devastated. Clean water scarce.”<\/p>\n

“We believe hundreds of people are dead,” said Khin Maung Win with the Democratic Voice of Burma — a broadcast media group run by opposition expatriates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

A government official in Naypyidaw, the ruling general’s new capital 240 miles to the north, said the latest death toll was more than 200…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

“I have never seen anything like it,” one retired government worker told Reuters. “It reminded me of when Hurricane Katrina hit the United States.”<\/p>\n

Although the sun was shining by Sunday morning, the former capital was without power and water, and food prices had doubled, with many storeholders unsure of when they would be able to replenish stocks. Most shops had sold out of candles.<\/p>\n

An Electricity Board official said it was impossible to know when the power supply — hit-and-miss at the best of times in one of Asia’s poorest countries — would be restored.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.aol.com\/story\/_a\/deadly-cyclone-pummels-myanmar\/20080504064309990001?icid=1616058736x1201521535x1200303519<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Living Church of God has at least two congregations in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).\u00a0 Even without weather problems, those in Myanmar always need our prayers.<\/p>\n

Also notice this news item:<\/p>\n

\n
\n

Severe weather continues<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n

05\/04\/2008<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

It continues to be a terrible spring for tornadoes, as severe weather outbreaks last week grabbed headlines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n