This is always a source of amusement.

This time God came to Pat in the guise of Al Roker.  Or something.

Pat told viewers of the 700 Club:

"If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms." On today’s show, he added, "There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest."

Okay.  First of all . . . "If I heard the Lord right"?!?  What — does the omniscient and omnipresent God mumble?  Is there some static in the transmission? 

And if there is, perhaps Pat is not very reliable as soothsayers go.

Of course, "if I heard the Lord right" and "There may will be something as bad as" both qualify as "weasel words".  When the predictions don’t come true, Pat can just say, "Oh, my hearing aid was on the fritz.  What God really told me was that we should all cut down on our cholesterol."

Secondly, the coasts of the Atlantic are "lashed by storms" every year.  It’s called the "hurricane season".  Climatologists and meterologists say there is a 64% chance of a hurricane hitting the east coast of the United States.  Of course, their estimation is based on a silly thing known as science, not garbled transmissions from the Almighty — so what do they know?