From the News Tribune in Washington City, Missouri: "A series of tornadoes in the south and mid-western US kills seven people, injures several others and causes power cuts for thousands"
In Kansas, there were tornado shelters that I saw in movies and read about as I was growing up. Our way of life no longer has us out on our farms where we can easily do that any longer.
We try to protect ourselves against the damage man can do but ar we doing enough to protect against Nature? Should we be building homes on slopes that are known for mudslides? Should we continue to build homes directly on the seashores? Should we continue to ignore the lwarnings that Nature is giving us constantly?
It seems we invest vast amount of money on security from a human enemy, but is it not equally important to secure ourselves against Nature's destruction somehow? There are, indeed, some things against we cannot protect but, for example, we have failed to protect ourselves from drug lords. If drugs were legalized and the monies used to fight the 'drug war' were spent elsewhere, would it not be put to better use to save more lives?
Why is it that American priorities are so skewed? Governor Jan Brewer preferred spending millions on prisons in Nevada while refusing transplants to the two fathers of several children. What is wrong with the choices made when politicians have life and death power of their constituents?
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