South Carolina State Rep. Lee Hewitt told a group of Republicans this week that the reason Hurricane Florence wasn’t as devastating as initially expected was because God decreased the amount of water they received.
He offered the baseless assessment during a meeting of the Georgetown County Republican Club.
“The last time I was up here, last month, I was warning you about the floodwaters that were coming,” Hewitt said. “I believe that the prayer in Georgetown had an effect. There’s only one person who can change a wall of water from 14 feet down to 4.”
On a more somber note, he pointed out the damage in the Florida Panhandle where Hurricane Michael made landfall Oct. 10, unleashing devastation across the region.
“While it wasn’t as bad here as we thought it might be, we know it could happen,” said Hewitt, who is running unopposed in the midterm.
The most disappointing thing about that is that he’s running unopposed…
Hewitt doesn’t understand that the trajectory and speed and power of a hurricane can change due to a number of factors, all of which are out of our control. Prayer isn’t one of them.
