Related commentaries – Storms

The Voice of The Lord in a Storm – Psalms 29:1 – 29:11

The Power of a Hurricane in Bangladesh

The following illustrates the power Of hurricanes: A hurricane lifts sixty million, or more, tons of water and generates more power every ten seconds than all the electrical power used in the United States in a year. The hurricane that struck Bangladesh in 1970 produced a tidal wave which killed at least 500,000 people. In 1900 at Galveston, Texas, a hurricane created storm tides that swept 6000 people to their deaths. Another 1000 people were drowned in 1954, when a large ferryboat was sunk by a hurricane in Hakodate Bay, in Japan’s north island. (Encyclopedia of Illustrations #12269).