India in eye of `Biblical' cyclone . . .

India in eye of `Biblical' cyclone . . .

PHULNAKHARA, India –– Bulldozers dumped bloated corpses onto the beaches today in cyclone-ravaged eastern India, where troops worked to protect relief convoys from angry, starving mobs.

Hundreds of people tried to stop every car, bus or jeep that passed, seizing not only food but whatever was available. Army Col. Shokin Chauhan said there were widespread complaints of looting, robbery and women being raped.

With 20 million people affected by the cyclone and floods, "the biggest challenge now is to deal with increasing instances of lawlessness and vandalism," said Jagganath Patnaik, the state's revenue minister.

A senior army officer involved in the rescue operation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that 10,000 to 20,000 were dead. That would make the storm India's worst, topping the 10,000 killed in a 1971 cyclone. State officials have confirmed only 250 deaths.

Army and police, unable to reach the worst-hit areas, feared that epidemics and violence would increase the death toll from the cyclone, which flattened homes, toppled trees and buried rice fields under a sheet of water.

"Everyone is drowned, and there is nothing to eat," said a tall woman in a dirty, wet sari.

She was too stunned to say her name or what had happened to her family in Paradwip, a port whipped by winds and waves for eight hours on Friday.

"It was sheer horror. The water just rushed in from the sea and thousands were running in every direction," said Raj Kumar Behara, an engineer who fled Paradwip to a small village.

Parents clutched babies above their heads as they ran from the waves, only to feel the fierce winds snatch the children away.

"I saw an old man who was clutching his child desperately for several minutes as the waves came in. Then he let go, the child was sucked under the waters and he was thrown in a different direction," Behara said.

Scores of boats had sunk, the port's railway connections were submerged, and survivors said hundreds of trawlers and fishermen were missing. Officials said today that it will take a month to fully restore power because many of the sub-stations are under water. They also said it will be weeks before the phone system is repaired.

The stench of thousands of decaying pig, cow and goat carcasses filled the air, and port employees collected bodies left behind by the storm. A bulldozer scooped up corpses, blackened with mud and rot, and dumped them on the sand. "I could not identify a single one of my workers," said D.K. Basu, who works for Paradwip port. "It's ghastly."

The army has still not been able to reach Paradwip five days after the cyclone hit. The navy cleared a channel for two landing craft, which delivered food Tuesday for 1,500 people.

Hundreds of thousands are starving, thirsty, homeless, and sick. Rain was still falling today, and rivers overflowed their banks.

In Cuttack, knotted high-tension wires were strewn in the wet streets, and people hung dripping clothes out to dry on electrical wires. After dusk, the fires from burning tires that people lit against the night chill provided the only light.

In Bhubaneswar, the state capital, residents stood by and watched 50 men break into a government-run grocery store and calmly walk away with everything in sight.

International aid workers were beginning to reach the area, however, and President Clinton announced a donation of more than $2 million in food and $100,000 in tents and plastic sheeting.

The Bayside Prophecies tell us . . .

There shall be floods, earthquakes, and great loss of life . . .
Our Lady - "Man does not recognize the warnings from the Eternal Father. There shall be great disturbances of nature. There shall be floods, earthquakes, and great loss of life. Pray that this destruction does not come close to your families. Many children shall die."
"My children, We hear voices of discord crying to Heaven. It is the voice of the unbeliever. The Faith has grown weak in mankind. The pastors are scattering the sheep. Oh, when will they awaken from their slumber? Too late to save our wandering sheep?!" (9-6-75)

Floods . . . Pestilence . . .
Our Lady - "My children, unless you pray more, unless you do penance and acts of atonement now, I cannot hold back the punishment, the Chastisement from mankind any longer. As your days proceed, evil is accelerating and the chastisement, minor and major, shall increase. There will be earthquakes in divers places; there will be floods and pestilence, and there will be the eruption of the elements. My children, My counsel to you shall all come to pass." (6-4-77)

All of the floods, and all of the droughts shall continue . . .
    Our Lady - "I have traveled throughout your world through countless earth - years warning you that you are approaching a most terrible punishment. And how can we stop this now? It has progressed and is too late to be stopped.
    "O My children, I know there are many that cry with Me. I go about the world now with tears constantly flowing upon My children. My tears shall not stop, for I know now that all of the cataclysms, and all of the floods, and all of the droughts shall continue. Mankind must be awakened from their slumbers, for they shall be punished in a way far worse than the human mind could comprehend.
    "I tried to warn you, My children, that there is great talk, talk, and action going on now throughout your country, but the talks will get you nowhere, for they do not talk of the Eternal Father. They talk of peace, peace, upon earth where there is no peace. There shall never be peace without your God. No man is a god, and as such he shall not make himself a god in the eyes of others.
    "O My children, I beg you, as your Mother, to listen to Me. My voice grows weak. I have raised up other voice - boxes throughout the world now to try to reach those who have not deafened their ears to Our pleas. We ask you all to keep a constant vigilance of prayer going throughout your country and the world." (6-30-84)

Droughts, famine, rotting crops, hurricanes, floods . . .
    Michael - "Hasten, harken, and listen to the words of warning to a generation that has become perverse, degraded - and abominations committed to offend your God. In justice and for penance, there will be visited upon your earth great trials - droughts, famine, rotting crops, hurricanes, floods, all manner of earth tremors and disturbances of nature, increasing in volume, spreading throughout your world. There will be eruptions and manifestations that shall bring terror to the hearts of many, in places that have never seen nor heard of such volume of sound and fierce eruptions of the earth.
    "Be ye warned that houses will blow in the wind, and skin will dry up and blow off the bones as if it had never been. Eyes will see and still not believe, so hardened are the hearts of mankind.
    "The warnings, the numerous warnings that have been given to mankind have gone by unnoticed, and man continues upon his road to his own destruction. Sins of the flesh have multiplied, and many souls are falling fast into the abyss, their eternal reward being damnation in hell." (8-21-76)

Floods shall rage in the fore . . .
    In the days ahead, for the future is now, My children, many will come over the veil. Many shall be taken from the world in the plan of the Eternal Father.
   "A gradual cleansing by trial shall be set upon mankind. The elements shall be used to bring great changes upon earth. They will not only be beneficial, My children. Floods shall rage in the fore, My children. The atmosphere shall burn in this near future because man has set himself among the stars and has gone too high in his pursuits.
    "O My children, how many earth - years have I traveled among you crying to you as your Mother to come back now from the wide road that you have chosen, a road that will take you only to the abyss and banishment and damnation." (3-18-78)

They will increase in intensity . . .
Our Lady – “Your seasons shall turn. Upheavals of nature shall be more prevalent. They will increase in intensity until mankind is brought to his knees.” (2-1-78)

Tragedies and disasters shall increase . . .
Jesus - "Great elemental tragedies, disasters, manmade and God-sent upon mankind, shall increase in volume, shall increase in intensity and numbers. Remember, My children, you do not understand that supernatural, for there will be accidents that are not accidents.” (5-26-79)

Storms, rotting crops and famine . . .
Our Lady - "Storms shall ravage the shores; crops will rot in the ground - famine. Insanity, from sin, in the minds of the young. Murders. Who shall govern your fine country, My children, in the future, as the pollution is bending the stalks. Repent now of your sin, for the hand of just punishment is being lowered upon you.” (7-25-78)

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