Floods, landslides and fire have cost a lot of lives across Europe this week.

Hurricane Katrina is picking up steam as it chews up Florida. 7 people died. This is the sixth hurricane that has taken lives in the state in a year.

Wanderings of a Post-Modern Pilgrim was in Florida and was musing:

After one has spent some extended time on the water as I did recently in the Apostle Islands, one looks at all bodies of water differently. There is more respect, more awe, more fear.

Which leads to this thought that came last week as we flew into Tampa, Florida from over the Gulf of Mexico and I looked down and saw houses and houses and houses built right into the Gulf. I wonder how those houses will survive the big storm that will hit there one day.