Would God smote the sinner?L

I God wanted to blast Kadizzle off the planet he sure had his chance yesterday.  The Commander and Kadizzle decided to follow Bob and Liz to Heaven Bay with the good ship Sovereign. We had a clear chance to duck into Berthold Bay, but the storm on the horizon looked like it would go North of us, wrong. We sailed right into it.  Many years have passed since Kadizzle has sailed for an hour straight into a howling gale.  At first the rain was light and we thought we might get off scot free, but there was lightening in the distance.  Soon the lighting was all around us.  Wind is one thing, but lightening is something else.  The Commander insisted we furl the head sail and motor.  To keep her happy we did and it was probably a good decision.  Ahead it appeared as if the water was calm.  This turned out to be an illusion, a wind line was coming right down the lake.  The Commander was below and Kadizzle was getting sandblasted with rain drops.  All the navigational aids failed to provide service.  The old reliable GPS was giving directions to turn right or left, but it later turned out it was set to the wrong approach to Heaven Bay. The laptop battery was dead, and the phone battery was dead with no charger to be found.  If visibility continued to be near zero the way into the bay would not be easy.  Fortunately just as we got close the clouds parted.  Now the guy up there could have blasted the boat to shreds with a lightening strike, but he must have been picking the winners of football and soccer games during the storm so he missed his chance, but then again perhaps he parted the clouds. Parting things like the Red Sea is one of his specialties.  Either way things turned out good for this agnostic.

So today we had a pleasant sail back and hit almost eight knots at times.  The lord giveth and the lord taketh away.  Anyone who ever played a slot machine knows that.