# Hurricanes hitting Red States....God's punishment? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 7, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742 "2017-09-07T16:38:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Zetetic\_Skeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Zetetic\_Skeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zetetic_Skeptic)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/61 "2017-09-08T17:12:39Z")
People who think that god has anything to do with natural weather phenomena are too far gone for any type of rational thought. Once it permeates the brain that far, it’s very difficult to pull the bag off the head. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/62 "2017-09-08T18:34:03Z")
> [@Zetetic\_Skeptic](#): > > People who think that god has anything to do with natural weather phenomena are too far gone for any type of rational thought. Once it permeates the brain that far, it’s very difficult to pull the bag off the head. It is more damming when one realizes that even the god of the Bible tell us that regardless if it is with a purpose or capricious, the weather (“acts of god”) do not depend on how pure or wicked the people affected are. As pointed by others, the people that do think about the disasters being sent by god have an out by looking at how blue the counties that were hit by Harvey were, but OTOH they will willfully ignore the “judgment” of the red counties if the latest projections hold out. The eye of the hurricane is drifting west of Miami and it may then go up the west coast of Miami and may hit the pan handle. That is almost all “red” territory. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/63 "2017-09-08T18:45:55Z")
I keep wondering…if God were punishing cities for homosexuals doing something or other, why is San Francisco doing just fine? No hurricanes or wildfires, and the last big earthquake was well before it became known as a gay mecca. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/64 "2017-09-08T18:53:41Z")
Gah! Coffee did not kick in on time, I meant to say that: ‘The eye of the hurricane is drifting west of Miami and it may then go up the west coast of _ **Florida** _ and may hit the pan handle. That is almost all “red” territory.’ ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/65 "2017-09-08T19:00:06Z")
The Miami Herald has it heading up through Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. With a little bit of southern Indiana and rural Illinois thrown in. [http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article171965332.html#storylink=mainstage](http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article171965332.html#storylink=mainstage) Not sure you can get much redder than that. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/66 "2017-09-08T19:44:44Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > I keep wondering…if God were punishing cities for homosexuals doing something or other, why is San Francisco doing just fine? No hurricanes or wildfires, and the last big earthquake was well before it became known as a gay mecca. > [@A snarky guy in 1906 San Francisco](#): > > If, as they say, God spanked the town > For being over frisky, > Why did He burn the churches down > And spare Hotaling’s Whiskey? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/67 "2017-09-08T20:17:22Z")
Unfortunately for many schadenfreude aficionados in this thread and elsewhere, it appears that Trump’s Mar-a-lago is about the least likely place in the vicinity to suffer serious hurricane damage. Built with 3 foot thick walls, steel-anchored to bedrock etc. Might lose a window or some roof tiles, I suppose. Even worse is that last time he got hit by hurricanes Trump managed to make a profit by collecting $17M in insurance money and pocketing much of it. [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/irma-mar-lago-smart-trumps-house-49697866](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/irma-mar-lago-smart-trumps-house-49697866) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/68 "2017-09-08T20:35:16Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > I keep wondering…if God were punishing cities for homosexuals doing something or other, why is San Francisco doing just fine? No hurricanes or wildfires, and the last big earthquake was well before it became known as a gay mecca. San Francisco is being punished by a plague of gay people! (That would have been the next step with Moses if Pharaoh hadn’t given in.) ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/69 "2017-09-08T21:21:47Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > How cool would it be if Irma completely flattened Mar-A-Lago? How cool would it be if Jose completely flattened Mar a lago? ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/70 "2017-09-08T21:35:44Z")
How cool would it be if Antifa completely flattened Mar a lago? Actually I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/71 "2017-09-08T22:18:25Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > How cool would it be if Antifa completely flattened Mar a lago? > > Actually I’m not sure. A hurricane is chaotic yet organized. Pretty sure that antifa only has that half right. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/72 "2017-09-08T22:22:09Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > of curse the next hurricane is Jose, so trump won’t let it into the country. Sounds like one bad _hombre_! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742/73 "2017-09-08T22:25:23Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > I keep wondering…if God were punishing cities for homosexuals doing something or other, why is San Francisco doing just fine? No hurricanes or wildfires, and the last big earthquake was well before it became known as a gay mecca. SF wasn’t a “gay mecca” in 1989? We’ve had a few big ones since 1906, in case you missed them. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricanes-hitting-red-states-gods-punishment/795742.md?page=3)