Gee, I bet many were wondering where I went! Yes, I have been away from my blog for
several months. Honestly, I have missed
my blog and tossing out my observations regularly for those willing to spare a
couple minutes to hear what has popped out of my head and into electronic bits
and bytes. But there has just been so
much going on that I feel that I just want to start making a comment or two, in
hopes that it helps someone, somewhere.
Tornadoes are very rare occurrences in Southern California. Typically, any funnel shaped objects are
water spouts out on the water that, in their short life, rarely come to the
shore. Tornadoes, or twisters as many
call them, hit with voracity in the southern central part of the United
States. While I would contend, as many
do, that this is the consequence of human influence on our climate, it
nevertheless is a seemingly frequent bunch of havoc sent to those states.
If you have never been around these storm cells, you cannot
really understand the dread and yet tremendous sense of excitement associated
with these storms. The air is
electrified with ions and the sky often turns a particular shade of green. It was extremely sad to hear that three
highly qualified meteorologists (and storm chasers) perished in a recent
tornado, but these natural phenomena are so unbelievable that you can see why
they chose such a dangerous career.
Southern Californians probably don’t have “be ready for
tornados” on their preparedness list, but tornados do remind us all that Mother
Nature is quite powerful and unpredictable and being prepared should really be
something that is as regular as getting a hair cut.
So, we are not in Kansas, but that doesn’t mean that we aren’t
aware that things can literally be gone with the wind – unless we prepare and
make sure it doesn’t.
