After at least 13 strange, deadly tornadoes dropped out of the night sky and killed five people and injured at least a dozen more Wednesday in four states — and while the rest of the country prayed for the safety of their fellow citizens, local residents and church leaders began comparing the drought, flood and fire plaguing the U.S. South to a Biblical plague.
The storms tore through just as firefighters began to get control of wildfires that killed seven and damaged or wiped out more than 700 homes and businesses around the resort town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. In Alabama, the weather system dumped more than 2 inches of rain in areas that had been parched by months of choking drought.
At least 13 confirmed twisters damaged homes, splintered barns and toppled trees in parts of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, the National Weather Service said. Tombstones were even knocked over in the cemetery behind the badly damaged Rosalie Baptist Church, near where three people died in northeastern Alabama.
“It looks like the rapture happened up there,” said church member Steve Hall, referring to the end-times prophecy in the Book of Revelations.
“Are we thinking the Lord is trying to get our attention?” said the pastor, Roger Little.
Indeed, a startling video from a resident’s escape from his cabin in Gatlinburg seems like hellfire —
https://youtu.be/NGyHu4iX5-Y
The National Weather Service was assessing damage from multiple possible tornadoes across the region. At least five hit Alabama, and three more struck southern Tennessee, and one confirmed in Louisiana and at least 4 in Mississippi, forecasters said.
A possible tornado was spotted on the ground Wednesday a few miles from Atlanta, and flights were delayed at the city’s main airport.
Three people were killed and one person critically injured in a mobile home after an apparent twister hit tiny Rosalie, about 115 miles northeast of Birmingham, said Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen.
A suspected tornado was responsible for the death of a husband and wife in southern Tennessee’s Polk County, while an unknown number of others were injured, said Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Dean Flener. No details were immediately available.
The Daily Post-Athenian in Athens, Tennessee, reported the Meigs County sheriff’s office said lightning is suspected as the cause of two deaths in a mobile home fire overnight.
Shirley Knight, whose family owns a small propane business in Rosalie, said the storm crashed in on them in the middle of the night. Daybreak revealed mangled sheets of metal, insulation and a ladder hanging in trees.
“We had a plaza, a service station and several buildings connected together, and it’s all gone,” said Knight, adding that the storm also destroyed a church and damaged buildings at a nearby Christmas tree farm.
The same storm apparently hit a closed day care center in the community of Ider, injuring seven people, including three children who had left their mobile home to seek shelter, said Anthony Clifton, DeKalb County emergency management director.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley issued a state of emergency because of the storms.
Meanwhile, thousands of people were without power, including up to 45,000 homes at one point in Alabama. Many schools dismissed early in Alabama and Georgia to avoid having students on the road in buses as storms continued to roll across the region Wednesday.
Teams from the National Weather Service confirmed that at least two weak tornadoes struck western Alabama, and meteorologist Kurt Weber from Huntsville said they were assessing damage tracks from at least four other possible tornadoes.
Tornadoes and hail also were reported Tuesday in Louisiana and Mississippi. The National Weather Service in Jackson, Mississippi, counted six confirmed tornadoes in areas of the state it monitors.
Despite dozens of tornado warnings, authorities said no one was injured in Mississippi, but six homes were reported destroyed in one southeastern county. Mississippi Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley said he came upon a UPS truck that was blown onto its side and hit a pickup truck.
“I’ve never driven through something like this in my life,” Presley said.
Torrential rains filled waterways and ponds that were drying up just days ago. Police in the northwest Alabama city of Florence put out barriers to block roads that flooded with as much as 2 feet of water when fallen leaves clogged drainage systems during torrential downpours. Streams were cresting in western Alabama after as much as 4 inches of rain.
All that water will only help snuff out wildfires that have burned thousands of acres across the region in recent weeks.
Rain provided some relief for the Gatlinburg area on Wednesday. All the wildfires in the city are now out, but some are still smoldering, according to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. Firefighters are still checking for hotspots, said Gatlinburg Fire Chief Greg Miller.
Some people had to deal with more than one problem.
A six-person crew that spent all Tuesday night fighting fires in Gatlinburg left the fire scene only to help respond to a tornado in McMinn County, Tennessee, said Fire Chief Bill Roach of Englewood, Tennessee.
“They’re wore out,” Roach said. “They’ve had very little sleep, and I know I’ve had two hours since Monday morning. We’re to our limits.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Scary. I hope that the good people of Tennessee recover soon.
That was hard to watch! I cannot believe that the News media is on recounting votes and who will be dressing Mrs Trump!
My heart breaks for those people. I hope those people got to safety!
God help them . No one else will!
It is shameful!
I’m sure the Red Cross has already been stepping up, but Obadma (intentional) will probably not do anything for anyone.
Hitlary didn’t win any southern states so the media think southerners are irrelevant!
I HONESTLY HOPE N PRAY THAT D CLINTON FAMILY NOW MAKE USE OF D CLINTON FOUNDATION MONEY TO HELP D SOUTHERN STATES CALAMITY. I SILL BE WATCHING HOW MUCH HELP CAN BE GENERATED BY D MILLIONERS N BILLIONERS.
MY FAMILY JOINS ME TO PRAY FOR THEIR SAFETY N EARLY RECOVERY FROM D EFFECTS OD D DEVASTATION.
Let us ALL PRAY for these people and their families. America we MUST TURN BACK TO GOD before it is too late. God please have mercy on us AMEN,
WCVB tv, ABC Boston has an interesting story about a Bible that was burned in the Tennessee fire. The Bible was pretty much destroyed in the fire except for a page with a passage about drought and fire.
Wow! God was trying to wake up people. We have to turn to him and not. D decisive like what liberals are doing. Accept Mr Trump as our next president. He maybe the messenger that was h
Sent to us.
Amen!
My heart goes out to the poor people of the southern US who have suffered from the devastations of the tornadoes and the wild fires. However, I can’t help but think that this may be is this God’s punishment to the manipulated people for having voted for Trump who responded to his message of hatred, bigotry and fear.
I do not know where your brain is, or if you have one, but between Trump and clinton, trump is a 1000% better than the clinton crime and abortion family, if she won it would be the end of the USA
Thank you Mr. Dave. Ppl open your eyes. This wasn’t the work of rapt of Father God. This became this way due to one man’s Selfish desire to built a, giant bomb fire in his backyard. We’ve been suffering from drought and for one idiot mans’ carelessness desired he wanted a, fire. What an idiot. I, live in Augusta. The toxic smoke has reached us here. Being Asthmatic person I’ve been suffering from toxic positing giving me Bronchitis and asthmatic as i, am I’ve been coughing and choking begging to breathe. Our Father would never hurt his Children for Trump winning when He hates the things the Democratic ppl are doing. God hates Abortion, neatest Homosexuality, He hates ppl which follows on the left side of His law. Jesus taught us to “ALWAYS FISH ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BOAT” MEANING PPL, EVERYONE WHICH STANDS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS LAW BELONG TO SATAN. MY STARS WHERE ARE YOU PPLS’ INTELLIGENCE. WHY WHEN HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN DOING OBAMAS’ PRESIDENCE. HURRICANES, TORNADOES ETC. FATHER IS ANGRY FROM ALL PPLS’ SIN BUT, IF HE’D WANT TO PUNISH HE’D START IN CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON DC, IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, EUROPE, NETHERLANDS AND THE WHOLE WORLD VERY FEW PPL WORSHIPING FATHER. TAKE THIS VIDEO. EVERY OTHER WORD FROM THIS MANS” MOUTH ARE THE MF, F, ETC.WORD EXCEPT PRAYING TO OUR FATHER GOD FOR HELP HE, CONTINUES TO CUSS. YES, FATHER HATES POTTY MOUTHS. HE, TEACHES THIS IN THE NEW TESTAMENTIN, ” REFRAIN YOURSELF FROM UNCLEAN MANNER OF SPEAKING. MAY YOUR WORDS BE OF GODLY CONVERSATION.THANKS FOR LISTENING. REMEMBER, HILLARYS’ A, MURDERER. FATHER STATES NO MURDERER HAS ETERNAL LIFE IN HIM…. 1.JOHN 3:15.
STOP THIS BLAMING OF TRUMP. HE’S GOING TO HELP OUR NATION. AS CHRISTIAN TEACHES US: FATHER STATES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. HE, ORDERED JOSHUA TO: “PLACE WALLS AROUND YOUR NATIONS. NEVER ALLOW THE ENEMIES TO ENTER OUR LAND THAT I’VE BLESSED. LEARN WHO ARE FATHERS BLESSED CHILDREN. WE, CAUCASIAN CHRISTIANS’! YES, WE, CAUCASIAN CHILDREN ONLY ARE HIS BLESSED CHILDREN FROM THE 10 OF 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL.. THE OTHER 2 TRIBES ARE THE JEWS.= JUDAH AND BENJAMIN. THEY’RE AGAINST CHRIST HIS HOLY SON WHICH JESUS IS IMMANUEL> ” GOD IN THE FLESH. SO, LIBERALS, HE IS NOT ON YOUR SIDE. HE’S ONLY FOR THE PPL WHICH LIVE RIGHTEOUS LIVES ONLY FOR FATHERS’ HOLY WORD.
A, SERVANT OF “YESHUA” D “CHRISTOS”, = JESUS THE CHRIST.
I doubt about your brain capacity. The Bible talks about love, forgiveness and compassion. Trump, a sexual predator, a fraudster, a liar never displayed any such Christian traits. Trump is now backing away from many of his campaign statements. He manipulated gullible people, including yourself to believe that he would do anything for you. He only cares about his billionaire friends and will give them tax breaks. As to abortion, you watch, he will do nothing to tighten the availability of abortions. . Clinton, despite her shortcomings, cares about the less fortunate, is experienced and has always been measured in her speech.
I agree with this the world needs to wake up pray to Jesus and be with him,everybody needs to believe truly???????????? We need to come together
I HONESTLY HOPE N PRAY THAT D CLINTON FAMILY NOW MAKE USE OF D CLINTON FOUNDATION MONEY TO HELP D SOUTHERN STATES CALAMITY. I SILL BE WATCHING HOW MUCH HELP CAN BE GENERATED BY D MILLIONERS N BILLIONERS.
MY FAMILY JOINS ME TO PRAY FOR THEIR SAFETY N EARLY RECOVERY FROM D EFFECTS OD D DEVASTATION.
It’s all ready too late to turn back to God. Prophecy is being fulfilled & the wrath of God is falling on this country. I’m very sorry to see all the innocent people suffer from all the tornadoes & fires! My heart & prayers go out to them.
You are so right! America, it is time to turn your eyes back on Jesus and forget all this evil. If we will do that as a nation, our Dear Loving Lord will bless this country again. This country became great because the Lord blessed it, not by any mortal man. We have been so blessed with forefathers that KNEW that our country would be great only if God blessed it. It is now the time…..He is patient, but He will really unleash HIs power if WE THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY DO NOT love and glorify God!
Amen, amen, amen! Dianne , we all need to read 2nd Chon.1:17 “If My people” this is not the America I grew up in ( late 30 to middle 50’s .however, I just don’t see our country changing, the world is to far gone,but I still pray for my grandchildren and two Great grandchildren! Norm
That sad things about the fires in Tennessee is that they were arson. I hope they find the fool who did this.
Yes the Lord IS trying to get your attention and here is what he’s saying:
“Wake up people. Climate change is REAL!!” . You best start dealing with it or it’s going to get a lot WORSE” .
“But you screwed up and elected someone who denies that it is happening and wants to undo the progress that has been made so far”.
“It’s in YOUR hands now!!!”
Stop with the climate change BS! Study it, and not those studies hired, directed and paid for by the various governments. The worlds weather is just that, weather. primarily influenced by the sun. Read Dark Winter. Stop spewing government propaganda.
Stop Spewing your anti-science B.S.
Finally someone who knows what is really going on World has been getting hot and cold for millions of years Its not mans fault at all it is just a natural cycle that just happens.
That’s RIGHT!
God made the earth to go through weather changes. He doesn’t need man messing with His creation.. All this Climate Change crap is a money making scheme made up of a brain washed few and rich Al Gore. God is watching ever so closely and one day soon the eastern sky will open and Jesus will call His people home… Then these left behind can continue their propaganda to brain wash the people… But seriously Climate Change is a money making scheme made up of money hungry politicians…………. Funny how people get pulled into all this BS so easily.. God has everything under control… Just pray and watch, but be ready to meet Him in the sky………… May God Bless all those in the storms.. I pray He’ll be with those who lost their loved one and also those that lost their homes.. I can feel for them.. I went through Andrew when it hit Miami… God heals our broken hearts and if we lean on Him He can and will restore our lives… May God bless all who are hurting…
My “big” mistake 2nd Chron.7:14 is the correct location. Sorry, Norman
Why do people pray to God after something like this happens? We are living in the last days, you can believe this or laugh at what I or any other man of God try’s to warn you.
Two preachers were driving home from a meeting one night, when one spotted that the bridge had been washed out and people were driving off the bridge into a river. So one preacher said to the other, “what can we do people perishing”? Let’s make up some signs and you go about a mile down the road and hold up a sign and I will go about a half a mile then we can get people too stop. Well this is what they did, however, people were not stopping and they were running into the river. So one preacher said to the other “Something wrong here what sign are you holding up? The sign read “STOP, REPENT, you must turn around. What about your sign, the other read “STOP, THE END IS NEAR”. The people were driving by them windows rolled down and yelling, “Who are you to judge us?” They keep on going by and yelling and driving into the river and perishing. The preachers look at each other and sadly shook their heads and said “What more can we do we tried to warn them but they would not believe us. “THE BRIDGE IS WASHED OUT!
BS these fires in Tennessee are in the middle of the Bible Belt and they were started by arsonists. 14 fires in various places in one city started at one time. BS. This is evil doers and terrorists by any other name who need to be found and raked over the coals. By the way Muslims just burned down 50% of Israel and that wasn’t heavily reported and neither are these fires. Tennessee has been a favorite dumping ground of refugees with problems arising everywhere including these counties and they have taken over entire towns. Look it up one called Shelby now looks like Little Somalia. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the terrorist arsonist were Muslim.
What a moron to assume that Muslims did something violent just because they are Muslims. These fires were started by disgusting people with no concern for others. That could be just about anyone nowadays. I live in a state with many Somali Muslims and they are, for the most part, just as nice as anyone else..
What a COMPLETE moron YOU are, OragelGuy, to think that muslims wouldn’t do this!! NO muslim maggot-munchers are friends of this country because they want to make their “so-called” religion the world religion. We are infidels to them & nothing more!!! They are just like the “globalists”, they want to control the world with their way of thinking!!
ISIS Flag is black and White which is a pail color their name is Death and Hell fallows with them! The 4th Seal
the beast comes out of the sea and has 10 horns and 10 crowns,
their is 10 supper powers each makes up the majority of the UN and the sea connects all of them!
The increasing number of natural disasters and terrible storms have many people wondering, who controls the weather, God or Satan? An examination of Scripture reveals that Satan and his demon angels have no control over natural disasters. However, the Devil, our “adversary,” must be taken seriously; we should acknowledge his existence and his limited power over the secular world. Satan, a defeated fallen angel, is super-human but not divine, having only the power that God ultimately allows (2 Thessalonians 2:6-11).
It is God, not Satan, who controls the weather (Exodus 9:29; Psalm 135:6-7; Jeremiah 10:13).
God does not make disasters… Satan does, but only what God allows… God’s wrath won’t be until after the Rapture…
God is master, of all things in the Universe. But ,read what , (G-d) ,allowed in the book of, Job, in the Bible.
Get these refugees out of America!
Whether modification GEOENGINERING please goggle this. These programs are causing our unusual weather. This is a crime against humanity. This causes drought, tornados, freak storms, too much too little rainfall. The BIGGEST story no one knows about. Bruce baby… climate change cannot be properly discussed without including GEOENGINERING.
Nope, the carbon dioxide created by burning fossil fuels is causing our unusual weather. God has tasked us to care for creation and we are failing.
AMEN!
One problem with saying that the CO2 created by burning fossil fuels is causing all the problems, they have taken ice core sample from ice in Antarctica that was created during the last Ice Age 10,000 yrs ago and when they melted them down under controlled conditions they found more CO2 in the gases released then we currently have in the air today. So where did that come from? We really weren’t doing much then!
The Bible says these things will happen It doesn’t say who would be behind it,,
Did you know that Tesla wrote a Paper Titled Tesla and the HAARP in that He states weather manipulation is in our grasps.
Also their was a meeting in Geneva in 1976 about weather manipulation techniques which was signed into law that they would not use weather manipulation techniques as a form of warfare but they could use it as a form of population control!
These natural diseases have been signs of Christ’s Second Return for over 2000 years around the world. Let’s look for the stars in the heavens falling and the moon turn and staying blood red. We have had the wars and rumors of wars also for over 2000 years, we have had famines and earthquakes for over 2000 years…These signs are to keep the People of God prepared for Christ’s glorious Return and the completion of our redemption of body and soul. Thus, during this Advent season, the People of God pray” “Come Lord Jesus! Come Soon!”
My family have been visiting Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge area at least twice 5 year for about 25 years now. We were there In October . I pray that the area can have a fast recovery. May God Bless the Bible Belt area of Greater Tennessee.
I keep hearing about the Rapture, I find it nowhere in the Bible. We will be transfigured upon Christ arrival, but we will also go through trials and tribulations as Jesus said. People need to get down on their knees and pray as well as repent. Not just for themselves but for this country that we have allowed to fall into the mire. This shouldn’t really surprise anyone who reads their Bible, like Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun. The answer is GOD’s word, the Bible.
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Man made the word RAPTURE.. It has the same meaning as Snatching Away.. in the Bible..
I have no doubt, God is attempting to get America’s attention. The weather; the south is pushing through right now has happened before and will happen again. Weather is a cyclical occurrence after all. This doesn’t take away from the catastrophic results, such as in Tennessee or other southern states. Come spring the alarmist will tell us how cataclysmic the floods are in the Mid West or the Fires in Kalifornia come the Santa Anna seasons or the mud slides that occur almost every year. Yet the brilliant Kalifornians rebuild back on the scorched earth over and over again. (definition of insanity) just saying
I hope we are not going to be seeing more Chicken Little claims because of weather changes. It is bad enough that Leftists think that man can control global climate, we don’t need to add religious fundamentalists to the Chicken Little coup. It’s weather, folks. It’s been changing since the dawn of the creation of the Universe, no matter how you may believe the Universe came to be.
Unless Southerners have been collectively participating in some really serious Satanic rituals, I wouldn’t think they are being punished by God. My guess is that God is thinking more along the lines of; Yo, mere mortals, chill out, you are just not that darned important in the broad scheme of My Universe.
We are very important,God sent his ,son to Calvary for us!!!
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Damage the windmill carbines
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God is not happy with Donald Trump so this is what you get for electing him. It is only going to get worse….
Do you think He wanted Hillary as president??????? Something is seriously wrong with anyone that would want that baby killing devil worshiping woman to rule this country,,, She is worse thee Castro was………
you know God thinks..????
What has Barack Obama done to help the South? Tennessee? Don’t blame Trump when the President remains Democrat through this horror.
My prayers go out for the people who lost everything in the fires and storms. We are a nation that murders close to a million babies every year, creates pornography in large volumes, has people that embrace ungodly lifestyles and finds very little time to worship God. I think God has plenty of reasons to try to get our nation’s attention. Will it work?
Biblical nonsense! Yeah right, God is trying to get your attention by weather and fires in the Southern States, but yet ISIS murder and beheadings od Christian families and innocent children in the middle east are no big deal??
Isn’t anyone aware, in all 4 of those states, of HAARP? HAARP is advanced weather control systems and they have based located all over the world. It os owned and operated by the Cabal and paid for with our tax dollars. It has the ability AND THEY USE IT to cause droughts in some areas, (which will cause torrential rains and flooding in others). They use it to create lightning in clouds already formed which will cause fires in very dry timber areas.
Of course, they do this in the “Bible Belt” because rather than them being suspicious of these events and “what” could likely cause it to happen, in only certain areas, the people of the “belt” will naturally assume it is part of the apocalyptic prophecies of the End Times scenario. And, it very well could be, but the prophecy doesn’t state that it could have been the “evil antichrist” (Cabal/Elite desperate to succeed in their agenda) “Secret Government” by destroying parts of the United States, creating chaos and havoc, causing more people to become sick, injured and homeless, all the while “escorting” thousands of Somali & other “refugees” into the United States giving them homes and spending our tax dollars once again to 1) bring them here 2) on the agency and personnel to organize the food, transportation, shelter, clothing, subsidies, and more for each individiual they bring. All the while they are cutting funds for Veterans, many of whom are sleeping in the streets and Education and Housing for the rest of the country and many of those people are also homeless sleeping in tent cities across America.
Can’t they see the overall design of this? Just because it may have been a Biblical Prophecy does NOT mean that it couldn’t be human caused. “They” HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!!! They have and are using it and many other avenues of destabilizing this country so as to bring it to its knees, with people crying and begging for the Government to DO SOMETHING!!
THAT is the time worn “Hegelian Dialectic” “Create the problem, Wait for the reaction, then offer the (Solution) help that they beg for” THAT HELP will come with a hefty price tag! Constitutional Rights will be stripped away, controls of every kind over media, the internet (control over all information), housing,(people living in what and where they want them to live) education (kids being taught what “they” want them to think) medicine (medical tyranny) and the sheeple will go for it because they waited too long to have the “WOOL PULLED AWAY FROM THEIR EYES!!”
It’ll work for us who serve Him… Evil run rampant in America today.. All this tarted when God was taken out of the schools, the courts. Man has tried to become God and run this country as they want……………. Scary… but listen we that hold on to God will survive.. They might kill us, but they can kill out souls and spirits,,, Rest with knowing that someday the meek will inherit the earth… That’s we who believe in God the Father, Jesus His Son and The Holy Spirit… Hold on child He’s watching and waiting….
Woops, I mean They CAN NOT kill our souls or spirits…
God is doing all this damage to get the attention of the people of the southern US? Really?
Aren’t there some other areas that are more out of touch with God than the South? San Francisco, NYC, Los Angeles/Hollywood, for instance?
Jeanette, consider that God may be calling those who have backed away from Him, but knew Him once.
THE LIBERALS WILL BLAME THIS ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND PROPOSE A TAX ON OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT.