“God bless Hurricane Katrina victims”

I hate to sound like a hardcore secularist, but, nonetheless, seeing this message blaring night after night on the signboard at a Lancaster (suburban Dallas) Whataburger is just too much.

If a god — not necessarily even omnipotent, just more powerful on a regular basis than the atmospheric dynamics of planet Earth — really were that blessing, would Hurricane Katrina ever even have hit New Orleans? Or, for that matter, would it ever even have formed?

(Note to you evangelical ministers, seminarians, etc.: I have a graduate divinity degree. I know what the word theodicy means.)