The Spring Of Fury

I will be 54 on May 26, 2011 and I have never seen such a violent season of tornado's. My wife thinks I am crazy when I get all worked up whenever the weather men report severe weather coming are way. I bought a generator a few years ago because I wanted to be prepared. We have a storm kit and my daughter and I check on a very regular basis.

I lived in Los Angeles when the Whittier earth quake shook L.A. and the surrounding area for nearly one minute. It was the longest minute of my life and has made me very safety conscience. Some might say a bit paranoid, but I say prepared.
I grew up in Louisville and lived through the April 1974 tragedy when tornadoes broke out across a wide path of the mid-west.

It was a terrifying experience. I can recall the way the sky looked a mass of whirling gray and black as I ran home from fountain ferry Park. I equate my heightened sense of preparedness to the experience of those people who lived through the great depression and their need for thriftiness.

But in my life there has never been a year like we are seeing this year. There have been over 400 people killed in storms this year. This has not occurred since 1953 according to weather statistics.

We lost over three hundred souls in the storms that went through the south. I was blessed that my niece a physician and her husband in Birmingham lived through the devastation in there city. Now we have the tragedy in Joplin. We have lost over 100 souls and we must pray for their families.

I am not sure why this year has been the year of the deadly storms. But one thing I know is that we now have the most sophisticated weather systems that we have ever had and yet over 400 people have lost their lives. Mother Nature has shown us that she is still in control no matter how sophisticated are technology we are still no match for her rage.

I have no answer or words of wisdom, just an observation. Life is a very precious gift and it is finite we never know when it will end. But it will end, so tonight when you go to sleep, no matter what your loved has done or how you feel tell that special one “ you love them. “ I know those over 400 people who have died this year suddenly wish they had that opportunity, just one more time, to tell those they left behind, I LOVE YOU!!!