Weathermen will tell you a hurricane hit the coast of North Carolina in 1876, but the people in the small town of Swanquarter say it was a blessing from God.
Swanquarter lies on the coast of the Tarheel State. It’s so small it’s unincorporated - the only unincorporated county seat in America. Swanquarter’s people have fished the waters of the Pamlico Sound for hundreds of years. But the waters, and God, never played a more dramatic role than they did on September 16th and 17th, 1876.
I’ve just interviewed a Romanian man who has been in the United States since the early 80s. We got onto the subject of religion. He’s a baptized member of the Greek Orthodox faith, and he talked about how his grandparents took him to church. He said that if you didn’t have grandparents to teach you about God, you didn’t learn.
He also said that the church had Bibles inside, but the government didn’t allow the church to give them to parishioners.
The Courier Mail from Australia reports on a record setting occurrence. The report says an American woman, Terri Comer, of Oregon has blown the highest blood alcohol level ever recorded.
A WOMAN found in a car in a snowdrift with the engine running had a blood alcohol level of .72 per cent, nine times greater than the legal limit for driving.
Maybe this will make its way into a story one day.
Weathermen will tell you a hurricane hit the coast of North Carolina in 1876, but the people in the small town of Swanquarter say it was a blessing from God.