{"id":256141,"date":"2024-10-07T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T16:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=256141"},"modified":"2024-10-09T16:22:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:22:03","slug":"everyone-praymiltonaway-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=256141","title":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #008080;\">EVERYONE<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">#PrayMiltonAway<\/span> \u2014 PLEASE ! ! !<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=256141\">State of the Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=%23PrayMiltonAway&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=top\"><strong>#PrayMiltonAway<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>SUPERSTORM MILTON ALERT!<br \/>\nA Special Message To<br \/>\nMy Fellow Floridians<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/download-3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>GOD IS GREAT!!!<\/b><br \/>\nHurricane Helene Prayers Answered<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Submitted by\u00a0<em>A Hurricane Helene Happy Camper<br \/>\n<\/em>SOTN Exclusive<\/p>\n<p>I live in North Florida, between Tallahassee and Perry.<\/p>\n<p>The eyewall of Hurricane Helene hit Florida\u2019s Big Bend region dead on, just southwest of Perry as a Cat 4 with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Two days before this superstorm hit the state, I went into an internal rage against you know who.<\/p>\n<p>It was like, \u201cWTH!!!\u201d \u2014 why do we Floridians have to suffer like this every single hurricane season of our entire lives, from June 1st thru November 31st\u00a0<strong>(that\u2019s 6 long months, mind you)<\/strong>, not knowing if we will be targeted with a veritable \u201cweather bomb\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, these \u201cweather bombs\u201d explode with wind and water, but just take a look at the videos of the aftermath of Helene to grasp just how destructive they can be.<\/p>\n<p>So now it\u2019s the day before Helene\u2019s D-Day, which was Thursday, Sept, 26, and something very big begins to happen inside \u2026 very deep inside.<\/p>\n<p>But only after much fervent prayer does this radical shift in my head space start to take place.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Only after much prayerful contemplation do I begin to enter<br \/>\na whole new and unprecedented state of profound<br \/>\npeace that surpasses all understanding.<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The next order of events that my wife and I are now living through on D-Day gets even more amazing and miraculous.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>How so?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because the later in the evening it gets toward Helene\u2019s landfall, which is a mere 60 miles from our home, and the closer the hurricane gets to our home, the more tranquil I become.\u00a0<em>WHAT?!?!?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-30-at-12.00.20-AM.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, the hour from 11:00 PM through 12 midnight, as the superstorm moved through Florida, I experienced an altered state of unparalleled serenity and well-being.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Really, how crazy is that?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cHurricane of the Year\u201d is barreling down toward and through the Big Bend and I\u2019m feeling happier by the hour on the superstorm\u2019s D-Day.<\/p>\n<p>But again, at the risk of repeating myself, those ardent prayers and sincere supplications have actually been an ongoing practice for years. Because that\u2019s what living in Florida will do to a person. It makes you pray like there\u2019s no tomorrow \u2026 \u2026 \u2026 because if you don\u2019t, there may not be a tomorrow.<\/p>\n<h3>The key takeaway:<\/h3>\n<h3>That the best response to these weaponized hurricanes is heartfelt prayer,\u00a0<strong><em>yes?<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Epilogue<\/h3>\n<p>By the way, although we were eventually less than 40 miles from that fast-moving ground zero, Cat 4 Hurricane Helene passed right on by as though it was just a regular North Florida thunderstorm. And, even our entire cleanup was completed in a half hour.<\/p>\n<p>The screenshot posted below captures the satellite imagery of what I saw as Helene was at its closest point to our property. Notice that swath of green on the left inside of the storm system; that\u2019s where we are located, in that green area between the intense bands of red orange and yellow.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-256164\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-30-at-12.25.08-AM.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-30-at-12.25.08-AM.webp 792w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-30-at-12.25.08-AM-300x225.webp 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-30-at-12.25.08-AM-768x575.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now hers\u2019s the awesome MIRACLE that took place: As Helene moved northward through Florida and up into Georgia, that very same green swath of very low hurricane activity stayed in place around our entire neighborhood.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">GOD IS GREAT ! ! !<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=256141\">Stats of the Nation<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 9, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}