Seraphim and the Dust Plague

<p>This is a story about a coming slowly creeping once in a millennium climatological disaster event. Yet the residents of a small Pacific Northwest town especially their Mayor seem more concerned with the taking up of a homeless man and his cohort in downtown a development threatening to ruin their idyllic self-perceptions. Even as the storm readies to deliver a direct hit many view the homeless men as the true plague rather than a dust storm acid spitting Tornado funnel-front that has reduced Syracuse and Chicago to utter ruin.</p><p>      Ultimately it is a story about what it means to love one's neighbor what it means to sacrifice what it means to trust in God's providential often unseen plans.</p>