I have a friend where I used to live in the Pacific Northwest.  She talks about things no one else I know talks about.  She said the reason it's so dismal there is because God is going to do something so big in the Seattle area that the whole world will sit up and take notice, and no one will be able to deny it that it was God.  She says the evil forces know it and they're trying to ruin everything ahead of this event, to try to stop the impact of it, but they know they're going to lose.   I don't know anyone who talks the way she does, so I'm always interested in what she has to say.