Wee shall finde that the God
of IsraelI is among us, when tenn
of us shall be able to resist a
thousand of our enemies, when hee shall
make us a prayse and glory, that men shall say
of succeeding plantacions: the lord
make it like that
of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty
upon a Hill, the eies
of all
people are uppon us: soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall shame the faces
of many
of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses
upon us till wee be consumed out
of the good land whither wee are goeing: And to shutt upp this discourse with that exhortacion
of Moses, that faithfull servant
of the Lord in his last farewell to Isreall, Deut.
You should imagine
thousands upon thousands of your
people dead... this town
of yours reduced to ashes, imagine it gone, buried under dirt,
made radioactive as if it had never existed like District 13.
A large cyclone in 1970 caused 500,000 deaths, but a similar cyclone in the same area in late 2007 (including a tsunami - like 2 - metre - high sea water intrusion) caused only 8000 deaths, though affecting the houses or livelihoods or 8 million
people: most
of the more exposed
people received early warning, and took refuge in
thousands of government - built cyclone shelters, chiefly schools and other public buildings,
made of concrete and other hard materials, and built
upon 12 - 15 feet high concrete pillars.