An Earthquake, a Hurricane, and some flash floods

So obviously, I have failed at keeping up with a blog in a timely manner. Since my last post we have experience a 5.9 earthquake, a cat (2?) hurricane, and now we are experiencing flash flooding. During the earthquake I was sitting in my home office and thought that there was someone outside using a jack hammer...however after a few seconds I realized that the house was also shaking (meaning it would have had to have been a HUGE jack hammer) at this point I start to panic slightly and then position myself in the door frame to the office. There is still a lot of shaking going on, a ceramic tumbler and believe plaque fell in the bathroom, some books fell off the bookshelf in the office, and I found a few items on the floor in the bedroomt hat also fell off of a shelf. Now had we put 2 and 2 together we would have realized that something was going to happen as our kitty cat had been acting very strange for a couple of days (actually, we thought it was just because she didn't like the cat door that my amazing husband put in). Now this happened on a Tuesday (and was felt almost all the way up and down the East Coast). That weekend Hurricane Irene was to come to town. now thankfully for me I was scheduled to be out of town at the Young Life Regional Weekend. Our speaker was Susan D. Hill and she spoke about hearing God, the reasons why we have difficulties hearing God and how to hear God, etc. Now none of it was a new concept to me, however it was quite refreshing to to have the gentle reminder and to worship with other believers from our region. I also had a great opportunity to spend time with some of our high school girls and fellow leaders. Now this all happened by August 28, 2011. Almost 2 weeks have passed and for the last couple of days it has been raining. We lost power for about 2 hours, and there has been flash flooding in Fairfax, and roads have been shut down. I even saw a video of a guy tubing down one of the roads. Sadly, while we are receiving an abudance of rain, there are fires throughout Texas and Oklahoma. It seems like there have been a lot of crazy weather patterns recently and of course people have their theories as to why (such as God is trying to shake up the country, or the end times are near, etc, etc.) Truth is we may not have an answer, it is what it is. All we can do is continue to put our faith, trust, and hope in God.