(bold emphasis mine)

It's true storms take their course, but, the loss of life and livelihoods does matter.

Yes, but realize it's addressing a totally different issue.

One question is: Are hurricanes getting worse, is the weather getting more extreme?

The other question is: Are there more causalities, more property and life loss, is God withdrawing His protection?

Totally different questions.

Americans are going to take a turn once again, now, with Hurricane Harvey.

Current reports are that it may reach a Category 3 status (it's at Cat. 2 at present). I see evidence that it may grow to at least a Cat. 4. Tropical storms can strengthen quickly. But the major danger is not really the wind speeds--it's the rainfall. In my opinion it may actually dump less water if it reaches Cat. 5 status before making landfall. This is based on personal observations of typhoons that seem to pack maximum water at about Cat. 3 level. While I do not claim to understand fully the phenomenon, it seems almost as if the higher wind forces sort of ring out some of the moisture before carrying it overland. Thus, in my opinion, Harvey is positioning itself, if indeed it comes in as a Cat. 3 as most are predicting, for nearly maximum damage.

Forecast track and intensity can be followed here:

http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com/tracker/dynamic/201709N.html

Fires are definitely getting worse on the west coast!

Last year, here in Canada, Alberta suffered from a huge fire that destroyed many homes.

This year British Columbia has been burning all summer in the worst fire season.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/largest-wildfire-1.4257021

My prediction came true. No one else was predicting a Cat. 4. I've been watching these storms (typhoons) develop for years and have gotten to the point where my personal mental calculations/intuition seem to have greater accuracy than the computer models.

On the negative side, however, this storm strengthened while so near to making landfall that there is likely no benefit in losing any of its moisture at sea. At this point, Texas appears to be in for a real wetting. Inundations are likely.

Again, another historic event happening with regards to the weather. Parts of Texas have indeed received upwards of a couple of feet of rainfall already, with that much more still expected in the next couple of days. Houston is experiencing a worse flood than it has in recent memory--and it wasn't even in the direct path of the hurricane. Many cars are submerged, with reports being that the local bayous (canals?) are overflowing their banks by as much as ten feet or more. Hundreds of county roads are shut down, and countless city streets have been turned into rivers. The 911 call center is flooded with thousands of calls, to the point they are telling people only to call for life-and-death emergencies (such as if they are clinging to their rooftops amid rising flood waters).

The rains are still coming...and they expect this flooding to continue at least five days. With little else to compare to in modern history, news reporters increasingly seem to invoke the usage of "Biblical proportions" to describe the degree of these catastrophes.

What about past memory?
Has a hurricane ever dumped this much water before?
Has Houston experienced more flooding before?

I'm not too sure about "hurricanes," but if we broaden the definition to include all of the names of the same weather phenomenon, i.e. hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones, then we can indeed see storms that have dropped more than Hurricane Harvey--much, much more, in fact.

Typhoon Morakot (2009) dropped 2.9 meters of water onto Taiwan. That's nearly 10 FEET of water--as compared to the predictions of Harvey possibly getting to half of that in the coming days. And Hyacinth (1980) sets the world record, with 5.7 METERS (>18 FEET) of rainfalldump.

So, put TWO "Harveys" into one single storm to equal Morakot--which, by the way, was only a Cat. 2 storm.

Again, based on personal experience with these storms, I would predict heavier rainfalls from mid-level storms than from the Cat. 5 superstorms.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Morakot
http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com/tracker/dynamic/200909W.html

I would agree, that while Harvey caused lots of destruction, and lots of people are in a bad way, Harvey is not an indication of worse weather than the past somehow indicating "the end".

Hurricane Henry has devastated many lives. Economically it is considered as one of the worst.



Hurricane season isn't over -- there is another one coming.

Some have predicted a super Hurricane in Hurricane Irma that Could Wipe Entire Cities Off The Map. However, other news reporters say its too early to predict and it might not hit the USA.

Maybe it's just that media coverage brings these things more into our awareness -- but it sure seems like these devastating storms are doing a lot more damage EVERY YEAR, then in times past.

There are so many people in difficulty.