Fire and Brimstone

Recently, my area has suffered from vast amounts of flooding and ice. Now we have about 8 inches of snow on the ground. I was driving along and there is a local Wesleyan church that has a sign out front. Sometimes the quotes are amusing and sometimes they say things like - "Be thankful it was only ice and water. It could have been fire and brimstone." Ok, ok...you all know my thoughts on this matter - and if not, well, I guess I don't want to really get into it at the moment. But after being infuriated at the quote, then laughing about it a little, then being infuriated again, I realized that I don't even know what the hell brimstone is...no pun intended. Dictionary.com defines it merely as "sulfur". Then, as you scroll down it says "an inflammable mineral substance found in quantities on the shores of the Dead Sea". Interesting. Apparently, a city in the Bible was rained on by fire and brimstone. That must have stunk...literally. By the way, Brimstone is also the name of a band and a TV series that lasted about year in the late 90's. It was about a dead cop, sentenced to Hell, then returned to Earth by the Devil to recover 113 escaped evil spirits. Does anybody remember this show? Or did they actually see it. I'm drawing a blank here. I'm also wondering if the Wesleyan church was talking about the TV show in their quote. I doubt it. They were probably referring to the brimstone in the bible...seeing how it's a church and all. I also looked up "fire and brimstone" on dictionary.com. It defines the phrase as: "the punishment of hell." OK. So was that church saying I should be thankful for ice and water instead of "the punishment of hell?" How do they know I'm going to hell? Oh wait...I said I wasn't going to get into this didn't I. BTW...I also found this in my research: FIRE AND BRIMSTONE. It's interesting. Check it out. Talk at you later!