Winter storm

Full moon over
City walls

 The weekend was cold but a few hours a day we had bright sunshine. Then yesterday we were suddenly warned that a massive storm is going to hit us this evening. Temp fell all night to 6 degrees and the sky this morning was very dark. We had heavy drizzle but I see from reports that other places had hailstones. Reports also say it'll start squalling by 4pm when the storm, which is hitting Greece and Cyprus now, arrives on our shores. Local emergency services are prepping themselves, and people are warned not to go out nor tarry in underground carparks. Several years ago a coupled drowned when their lift was stuck on the ground floor and it flooded. I guess it's prudent to prepare oneself, but knowing Jerusalem, it'll only get 10% of whatever weather the rest of the country is going through. But let the rains come! We need it very much! Right now I can feel the wind blowing very strongly. 

Last night I had class till 10pm but a terrorist attack at Damascus Gate forced the police to close the City Gates and surrounding roads outside the Old City. I was out in the freezing cold waiting till I actually managed to get home at midnight. Maybe the cold has made me sick. I'm having severe diarrhea since I got back till now. I can't walk. It's very distressing. Anyway there's a full moon and watching it last night while waiting to re-enter the City was a consolation.

Meantime I read a report saying Christian leaders made a statement lamenting the disappearance of Christians in the Holy Land because extremist jewish settlers are attacking christians and burning churches with impunity. Just yesterday we read how a christian man was beaten up by 6 jewish youths in broad daylight at Jaffa Gate. No one did anything to stop them. The situation is appalling but the rest of the world doesn't care. Soon Israel will be like Syria and Iraq and Iran ... the cradles of Christianity without any christians. Once the original descendants of the first christians are gone, there is no way to bring them back again. Christianity will have no roots.