Arkansas Flash Flood Disaster

I have made an error! My last post stated that there were 20 victims of yesterday's flash flood, but that number is reduced to 16, then up to 18 today. I wonder if they will ever really know how many people have perished, since there were either few records, or the records were washed away in the flood. The article (linked to title) speaks of an 18 wheeler being wrapped around a tree...roads chewed up and spat out...and families tying themselves to trees. It is eerie that after more than a day, they have only found 80 people out of the possible 300 who could have been there that night. Where on earth are they all? When man made disasters occur, it's easier to direct your emotion to the cause, as with BP and the oil spill. But when it's a natural disaster you're really only left with the pain, and no answers as to why. Lots of "what if 's" and "if only's", and a renewed urgency for people to have weather alert monitors...but in the valley I wonder if radio signals would have reached them. It's times like these when it would be awesome to have a "hot line" to God for reassurance that these children didn't suffer, that somehow they were scooped up into His mighty hands, before the agony and terror began. I understand that He gave us choices, and that our free will, and the collective world's free will, all have consequences, but I find it hard to get the image of small children, caught in their tents, being washed away, and perhaps torn from their parents arms. Perhaps there are people, young and old, who are out there in the wilderness, waiting for someone to reach out and cradle them in their arms. I have a vivid imagination, and that can sometimes be a burden!!! This makes me very sad for all those families.