God and Myanmar

I share Susan's distress over comments attributing the Myanmar disaster to God's will.  But I don't find the comments especially puzzling -- in some cases, they are legitimate attempts to reconcile the world we see with God's sovereignty.  It's one thing to write off school shootings as products of free will, but it's much harder to do that with a natural world that seems hard-wired for human misery.  Explaining Myanmar as an exercise of God's sovereignty also makes a certain amount of logical sense after reading Scripture, particularly the Old Testament.  If God hardened Pharaoh's heart in order to keep him from freeing the Israelites, necessitating more plagues, why wouldn't it make sense that God would "clean up Myanmar" in this horrific manner?  One reason I have such a hard time reading the Old Testament is that it seems that God is continually breaking eggs in the course of making his proverbial omelet.  Modern sensibilities suggest that God's love for every single human person precludes Him from willing any amount of suffering for any single human person.  I hope that's the case.  The Bible does not exactly boost my confidence, though.