Don’t forget Sodom – that was another one of God’s major screw-ups, to the point that he pretty much destroyed it, too. Except at least we got the word ‘sodomy’ as a result.
Face it, God is a lousy manager. Maybe God is a storyteller and folklorist, but he doesn’t have an MBA and the only training he had was on-the-job. So you can’t expect good decision making from a being that makes seat-of-the-pants emotional decisions.
As I’ve mentioned before, reports from rural US Christian radio shows, say that Gawd is currently focused on punishing the USA (with severe weather) for its oh-so-tolerant treatment of gay people.
(He has his work cut out for him, as I hear there is at least one such person who is taking that as a challenge to see how much [censored] he needs to [censored] to wipe the Bible Belt out of existence.)