Hurricane Isaias was a Category 1 hurricane which impacted portions of the Eastern Caribbean and produced significant damage in the Eastern United States, causing a tornado outbreak featuring the strongest tropical cyclone-spawned tornado since 2005.

The ninth named storm and second hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Isaias originated from a vigorous tropical wave off the coast of Africa that was first identified by the National Hurricane Center on July 23. The tropical wave gradually became more organized, and obtained gale-force winds on July 28, before organizing into Tropical Storm Isaias on July 30.

Isaias marked the earliest ninth named storm on record, surpassing 2005's Hurricane Irene by eight days. Isaias strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane the next day, reaching a peak intensity of 85 mph (137 km/h) and a pressure of 987 mbar. On August 1, the storm made landfall on North Andros, Bahamas and subsequently weakened to a tropical storm before paralleling the east coast of Florida and Georgia. As it approached the Carolina coastline, it re-intensified back into a hurricane shortly before making landfall near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, at 11:10 PM EDT on August 3 as a Category 1 hurricane, and proceeded to accelerate up the East Coast of the United States as a tropical storm before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone over Quebec. Read more...

Standing near this splitting tree brought to mind ...

The Cutting of the Elm at Gisors in 1188 symbolically marking the split between the Knights Templar and the Priory of Sion". If it is indeed true I feel connected to that storyline.

The Knights Templar or simply the Templars, were a Catholic military order founded in 1119, headquartered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem through 1128 when they went to the Vatican and were recognized in 1139 by the papal bull Omne datum optimum. The order was active until 1312 when it was allegedly suppressed by Pope Clement V by the bull Vox in Excelso. So many stories live on about them.

The Priory of Sion, was a fraternal organization, founded and dissolved in France in 1956 by Pierre Plantard as part of a supposed hoax, though numerous researchers claim the secret society still operates. In the 1960s, Plantard created an apparently fictitious history for that organization, describing it as a secret society founded by Godfrey of Bouillon on Mount Zion in the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099, perhaps conflating it with a historical monastic order, the Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion. In Plantard's version, the Priory was devoted to installing a secret bloodline of the Merovingian dynasty on the thrones of France and the rest of Europe.

The notion was expanded upon and popularized in the 1982 non-fiction book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail", whose concluding arguments Dan Brown borrowed for his 2003 novel "The Da Vinci Code" and in some ways link to my book, Sarah and Alexander. This is the story of the Masonic Program coming full circle.

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