Alex Bellah...second half of my blogs for this week

National: floods

Summary: Washington state residents were hoping by Wednesday that they could return home after flooding forced them to flee their homes. The damages caused by this major northwestern storm still have not been said but the search for missing people continues. Everything happened so suddenly that some people did not have time to flee their homes but had to be rescued by helicopter. About 70,000 people were without electricity in Washington state and Oregon during the high point of the storm. On Wednesday most electricity was able to be turned back on and hospitals no longer had to use emergency generators. People are hoping that things can return to normal very soon with as little of damages as possible.

Opinion: I pray that no one was terrible injured by this tragic storm and that the missing people will be found alive and doing okay. This is such a tragedy, if only we had control over the weather. The weather is a very tricky thing and there is really no way of telling ho bad a storm can be in the end. You can estimate the effect of the storm but no one really knows till all is done. It is a tragic thing that it happened so fast and that many people did not have time to evacuate. Hopefully in the future we will be able to come up with some sort of system that can help with the effect of storms.


International: Suicide kills 13

Summary: On Wednesday a suicide Bomber rammed their car into a minibus filled with Afghan soldiers south of Kabul. 13 people were killed in this attack including six soldiers. This attack cam about 24 hours after another bomber attack happened against NATO. Unlike in the attack that happened on Wednesday no Military casualties happened in the NATO attack. Many attacks have happened weeks earlier to these attacks and many have happened after. I believe that the attacker still has not yet been found out.

Opinion: It is sad to think that the world is ending up this way. The Lord has warned us of these times to come and now that they are happening it is hard to imagine that it could get worse…but it will. My heart goes out to the innocent lives that were lost in these attacks and the families that lost their loved ones. I pray that the Lord will be with them and he will comfort them. My heart also goes out to the attackers and how they think that by doing this it will have a positive effect on someone or something. Whoever thinks that has some serious issues!