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Preacher: God told him about storms, tsunami
Robertson says warning was for this year; tsunami might hit Northwest

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - In another in a series of notable pronouncements, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says God told him storms and possibly a tsunami will hit America's coastline this year.

Robertson has made the predictions at least four times in the past two weeks on his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded.

Robertson said the revelations about this year's weather came to him during his annual personal prayer retreat in January.

"If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said May 8. On Wednesday, he added, "There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest."

Robertson has come under intense criticism in recent months for suggesting that American agents should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip.

Televangelist, political pundit, fearmongerer, hatemongerer, money maker. And now, you're local weather man. Is there anything Pat Robertson can't do?

I wonder what's going to cause the storm this year? Abortions? The gays? Devil-worshipping pagans?

Hopefully one hits him and takes him out and his little 700 Club as well.