The rain is blowing sideways outside right now. The series of severe thunderstorms and hundreds of tornadoes they spawned is unprecedented in my memory but I have to admit I haven’t studied the past history. They do demonstrate as do other natural phenomena how tenuous our existence on the earth really is. We don’t really know for sure just how violent and earthquake can be for instance. Just because we’ve only been able to measure up to a magnitude of 9.5 so far doesn’t mean a 12.9 won’t hit somewhere tomorrow.
The fact that the soft, warm, comforting, relaxing breeze that seems to caress can in very short order cut a tremendous swath of destruction though not just a trailer park, but a hub of human activity is mind boggling to me.
I’m beginning to think that perhaps if there is an apocalyptic event it won’t be a nuclear war or aliens or even a deadly virus. We may be decimated by weather and geophysical events. Whether it’s merely a reaction of chemistry and physics brought on by what we’ve done to the earth’s troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and so on or, the earth decides on its own we’ve become a pest that it needs to rid itself of us, it could happen in large enough quantities and close sequences to seriously reduce the population of the earth. Then, there’s always that meteor. Keep watch dinosaurs.
