Killer storm Frances approaches, WE MUST PRAY Articles / In The News Date: Sep 03, 2004 - 12:32 AM | |
 At a time in our life when things really count over 2 million are counting on our prayers. This is the second storm to hit Flordia in the past few weeks. Can anything be done about it. Can we stop it. Can our prayers make a difference Can God stop it. I think we all know the answer. Will you join with me in prayer to change the direction of this Killer Hurricane in Jesus Name. MIAMI - Residents and tourists in cars, trucks and campers clogged highways along the state’s Atlantic coast on Thursday, fleeing inland as mighty Hurricane Frances threatened Florida with its second battering in three weeks. About 2.5 million residents were told to clear out — the biggest evacuation request in state history — ahead of what could be the most powerful storm to hit Florida in a decade. Other people in the 300-mile stretch covered by a hurricane warning rushed to fortify their homes with plywood and storm shutters, and buy water, gas and canned food. Already a Category 4 storm with 140-mph winds and the potential to push ashore waves up to 15 feet high, Frances could make itself felt in the state by midmorning Friday. Its core, with the strongest winds, was expected to hit land late Friday or early Saturday. While Charley was as a Category 4 storm as well, Frances is twice as wide, Ed Rappaport of the National Hurricane Center told NBC's "Today" show. As a result, he said, expect "the same kind of devastation but perhaps over a larger area near landfall." Andrew, for its part, was more intense at its core but also "a smaller storm ... so we expect a wider area of damage than we saw with Andrew," Rappaport said. At 5 p.m. EDT, the hurricane was centered 375 miles southeast of West Palm Beach and was moving northwest at close to 10 mph. This could be the first time since 1950 that two major storms have hit Florida so close together. On Aug. 13, Hurricane Charley splintered billions of dollars worth of homes, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands and killed 27 people when it tore across the state. Charley’s example — and Frances’ tremendous size — prodded people like Linda Silvestri, 58, to get out of the way. Silvestri, who lives in Palm Bay on the central Florida coast, headed inland to Gainesville to be near a hospital because she just received a kidney transplant. “I hope I have a house when I get back,” she said. The hurricane warning covered most of the state’s eastern coast, from Florida City, near the state’s southern tip, to Flagler Beach, north of Daytona Beach. Forecasters could not say with certainty where Frances would come ashore, just that it would strike late Friday or early Saturday. About 14.6 million of Florida’s 17 million people live in the areas under hurricane watches and warnings.
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