{"id":1126,"date":"2011-05-11T19:53:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=599"},"modified":"2011-05-11T19:53:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:53:23","slug":"fires-floods-tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"fires, floods, tornadoes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up with a few odds and ends over the last few weeks… \u00a0 In Tallahassee, Florida, I talked with Tacha Williams at the store Pakmail<\/em>. \u00a0 She said she was Christian and believed some \u00a0contemporary signs \u00a0point to us being in the: “end times.” \u00a0 As she was speaking, there was an National \u00a0Public Radio \u00a0news piece in the background reporting massive wild fires had now burned over one million acres in Texas… \u00a0 Shortly after this, it was reported that in one week in the U.S. there were 312 tornadoes (including the devastating ones in Alabama) — the most<\/em> in a week in U.S. history… \u00a0 In Carabelle, Florida (on the Gulf), I talked with a native there who said the BP oil spill threatened the livelihood of some 1,100 “oysterers” in the area, as well as employees at shucking houses, truck drivers… \u00a0 While on the coast, \u00a0Liz and our kids \u00a0went swimming in the “pristine waters” (their words) at St. George Island on a Saturday. \u00a0 A storm kicked up the next day. \u00a0 And by Monday there were tar balls on the beach and “for as far as the eyes could see in the water,” someone who had been there told us. \u00a0 (The next day there were stories about this in the local newspaper.) \u00a0 During the “end times,” the Bible says \u00a0some water will turn to blood. \u00a0 People were reporting during the height of the oil spill last year, that the oily surface water had a distinctive red sheen to it… \u00a0 \u00a0 And have I mentioned the unfolding huge<\/em> \u00a0 Mississippi River flooding? \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Speaking of the ‘after life,’ and such… \u00a0 Bumper sticker sighting on a pick-up truck in Carrabelle, Florida: \u00a0 Is There Life After Death? \u00a0 Touch My Truck And Find Out!” \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catching up with a few odds and ends over the last few weeks… \u00a0 In Tallahassee, Florida, I talked with Tacha Williams at the store Pakmail. \u00a0 She said she was Christian and believed some \u00a0contemporary signs \u00a0point to us …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}