WOW- Re: Hurricane Felix

I only just realized that this is my only blog entry re: Hurricane Felix. But I guess that's because I sent out email updates instead, requesting prayer and then afterwards an update. It was the first time I was in another country with a major storm of any type...much less a category 5 hurricane...coming my way. I was a bit shook as I heard the President of this county announce that he was issuing a State of Emergency. Yikes. What do I do? Here, unlike in the US, there was no repeated announcements of, "prepare for the storm by doing...." So, I made sure I had candles and matches and extra bottled water and some none perishable food. Thankfully, the storm did not come our way, and the residual rains did not cause any mudslides in this area. You may be interested in knowing though that apparently this storm did set a record. It developed from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane in only 51 days...which is quicker than any other storm. And you may remember in my request for prayer, that I mentioned a particular Christian ministry called Cornerstone that I'm particularly fond of on the northern shore of Honduras. It now includes a fully operational Hospital called Loma de Luz and it was the bulls eye target for this storm. Below is an email reply from Sally, a friend at that hospital. Please sit, read, enjoy, and praise God:

"Thanks for asking, Deb. All is well. On Monday, things looked very bleak. Felix was predicted to basically be smashing the hospital area on Tuesday, with significant loss of life and devastation. Prayer alerts were sent out, people prayed, and by Tuesday, Felix was headed on a very different path, a path which according to the weather folks it wasn't supposed to take, a path which directed it south and into and along the interior mountain ranges of Nicaragua and Honduras. This quickly weakened the storm, and the damage and loss of life was far less than expected, and it didn't harm the Loma de Luz area AT ALL. Wow. --Sally
p.s. If you'd like me to add you to our Cornerstone prayer alert email list, let me know (and tell me what email address you'd like me to use)."

Isn't that great! I absolutely believe this was a God Thing.

By the way, with all the follow-up rain that we had from the storm. I couldn't help but wonder why there was no water on campus the next day when I went to take a shower? We have our own wells and the electricity was working. I asked Teri as we drove into work. She said she can't explain it...but frequently during rainy season, particularly after a storm, the water won't work. And contrastingly, the water almost always works in dry season. Go figure! By the way, the water came on later in the morning, but the water was off almost the entire next day...but this time was due to 2 teenage boys messing with things that they shouldn't be messing with. Remember the extra bottled water I prepared and put in the frig for Felix? It came in useful afterall. A little warming in a pot on the stove... and my short hair was shampooed and rinsed in no time at all!