Under The Rainbow
How utterly dreadful. Miserably catastrophic. One moment life is normal, the next there is no life. Difficult to contemplate, much less understand. Other than that capricious, compassionless and oh-so-neutral nature goes about her business. Hers to dispose, and we cannot oppose, for we are helpless under the rage of her occasional vicious tantrums.
No fewer than fifty-two lives snuffed out, lost to the mighty forces of nature no human invention is capable of forestalling. From Alabama through Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, to Kentucky, a series of tornadoes cut a wide swath of destruction. Blowing apart peoples' dreams, their happiness, obliterating their futures.
Homes, shopping malls, schools, all destroyed. Hundreds of people severely injured, never knowing what life had in store for them when they went to bed that evening, only to be unceremoniously, frighteningly awakened by the imposition of nature's bad temper. People fought to save themselves as all around them buildings collapsed.
Cars, trees and debris of every nature, large and blunt, small and sharp, flew about in a deadly uncoordinated chaos of immense disorder. At Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, fifty-one students were treated in hospital, some with extensive injuries, as their campus collapsed around and over them. In the state, 140 people were injured.
Fifty people trapped at a retirement centre were removed to the safety of a shelter. A storm-damaged gas pumping station near Nashville caused a huge fire. Three people were killed in a trailer park in Kentucky, another four in another Kentucky county. Heavy rain, winds and hail came down across the Carolinas to southern New Jersey.
But where the tornadoes struck, unseasonably warm temperatures spawned those twisters. Marking the deadliest day of tornadoes since May 1999, when 46 people died in Oklahoma and Kansas. The current event joins place among the 15 most lethal weather events since 1950.
Impossible to underestimate nature. Impossible to come to terms with the depravity of her tendentious will.
No fewer than fifty-two lives snuffed out, lost to the mighty forces of nature no human invention is capable of forestalling. From Alabama through Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, to Kentucky, a series of tornadoes cut a wide swath of destruction. Blowing apart peoples' dreams, their happiness, obliterating their futures.
Homes, shopping malls, schools, all destroyed. Hundreds of people severely injured, never knowing what life had in store for them when they went to bed that evening, only to be unceremoniously, frighteningly awakened by the imposition of nature's bad temper. People fought to save themselves as all around them buildings collapsed.
Cars, trees and debris of every nature, large and blunt, small and sharp, flew about in a deadly uncoordinated chaos of immense disorder. At Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, fifty-one students were treated in hospital, some with extensive injuries, as their campus collapsed around and over them. In the state, 140 people were injured.
Fifty people trapped at a retirement centre were removed to the safety of a shelter. A storm-damaged gas pumping station near Nashville caused a huge fire. Three people were killed in a trailer park in Kentucky, another four in another Kentucky county. Heavy rain, winds and hail came down across the Carolinas to southern New Jersey.
But where the tornadoes struck, unseasonably warm temperatures spawned those twisters. Marking the deadliest day of tornadoes since May 1999, when 46 people died in Oklahoma and Kansas. The current event joins place among the 15 most lethal weather events since 1950.
Impossible to underestimate nature. Impossible to come to terms with the depravity of her tendentious will.
Labels: Environment, Nature, Realities
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