[rjsimmon]

Are you of the school that believes God creates and guides hurricanes to specific places as punishment?

Not entirely, unless prophetic warning and a chance for repentance has been given. Ninevah escaped destruction because of Jonah, as a tool of God's love, preaching repentance. Sodom and Gomorrah were given the opportunity to repent and did not.

[ColdWater]

Not entirely, unless prophetic warning and a chance for repentance has been given.

If they are not entirely an act of punishment, then either the tornados are sent as a reward or they are an act of chance. Which?