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TexasTowelie

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Fri Sep 6, 2019, 03:11 AM Sep 2019

DeSantis says Hurricane Dorian left Florida with "tens of millions of dollars" in damage

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday didn’t quite attribute Hurricane Dorian’s dramatic turn away from Florida to prayers he and Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz separately left, written on paper, between the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Each note, left in observance of a Jewish tradition, urged divine intervention against any hurricane threatening the state.

“All I can tell you is [that] last week the storm was a beeline, a buzzsaw, across South Florida. And it kind of stalled out and turned pretty dramatically 90 degrees to the North,” the governor said during a news conference at the emergency operations center in Tallahassee

“If we had a hand in assisting that, I’m not going to argue with the Big Guy upstairs,” he said.

Read more: https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2019/09/05/desantis-says-hurricane-dorian-left-fl-with-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-in-damage/

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DeSantis says Hurricane Dorian left Florida with "tens of millions of dollars" in damage (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2019 OP
I uh believe it was MOTHER Nature in control of the steering wheel, Gov. n/t Guilded Lilly Sep 2019 #1
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