News item last week: “(the London Mail): “The ritzy Miami-area neighborhood of Coral Gables has replaced regions in California and New York for the most expensive homes in the United States. Seven of the ten most expensive neighborhoods in America are now in Florida, with one Coral Gables Estates topping the list. The average property in the Gables Estates neighborhood runs around $19.14 million.”

There’s Indian Creek Village. It’s known as “Billionaire Bunker.”

Jeff Bezos, Tom Brady, and Ivanka Trump live there, to give you an idea.

The problem (besides the spiritual issue of mammon) is that nowhere in the U.S. is more likely than this area to be in the crosshairs of a major hurricane.

One of the gated communities in Coral Island Estates, Cocoa Plum, was under whitecaps during Hurricane Betsy (in 1965).

That was just a category-three.

Seventy-one hurricanes have been recorded in Coral Gables since 1930. The largest hurricane was Gerda in 1969. The most recent: Dorian in 2013.

Miami was narrowly missed a number of times by higher-category storms, including Hurricane Andrew, the famously devastating category-five that virtually wiped two cumminities off the map, reducing them to concrete pads.

It would have hit Miami and Coral Gables but for a last-second jog to the south. One home there is listed for $57 million. Another, just across the state, near Naples—also narrowly missed—was put for sale recently for $250 million.

All this is said as we enter what a famous hurricane specialist we once interviewed, Dr. William Gray, called “a new hurricane era.”

Some believe it has graduated to such a point that soon they’ll have to increase the top level for hurricanes to category-six.

This year is expected to be especially active.

Anywhere on the East and Gulf coasts is at risk.

We have allowed homes to be built on barrier islands that God created to protect the mainland. Homes were never meant to be built there.

Few recall that the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 caused such devastation (especially on the barrier island called Miami Beach) that there was public discussion among officials as to whether a city should even be rebuilt there.

If a hurricane of “Andrew’s” power were to strike Florida today in the same spot, it would cause up to $100 billion in damage, according to a recent analysis by Swiss Re, the reinsurance firm. And that’s not counting Coral Gables and other palatial areas such as Jupiter and West Palm Beach.

Florida, Gray told us, has been “extremely lucky.”

The question is whether that luck will hold; or whether the next “Andrew” will find all the mammon too tempting.

[Michael Brown retreat, St. Augustine, Florida, and Sent To Earth]

[Said Mother Angelica about Sent To Earth: “If you didn’t buy his book, you’re missing it. It’s not a scary book; it’s a very good book. If you haven’t bought it I would buy it. I think it’s a great book, just terrific. I think it’s important for my future and your future. I want you to read Sent To Earth. Why? It’s logical, it’s truthful, it’s sensible, and it’s God’s way of saying, ‘Let’s be ready.'”]