AT:  not a particularly adroit distraction.  The topic was the horrible hurricane and flooding in Houston.  You defined it as an intentional act of God.  If, indeed, there is a god, God or gods, he, she, it or they is (are) seriously mean and nasty.  As I noted, the only defense I ever heard (and a weak one it is) is "God works in wonderous and mysterious ways."  Gary Crum