To Members in Missouri

[mishb]

I have been thinking of everyone for the past few days.
First we heard of Minneapolis and now Missouri.
Everyone was so thoughtful on here when Australia was hit by floods, cyclones and fires and my heart goes out to all that are in, or have relatives and/or friends in the areas hit by the Tornado's.
The photo's shown on our television stations are so graphic are so sad to watch.

Take care everyone.......wherever you may be

[Sangye]

Gosh, now we can extend this thread to so many people--Okalhoma, Texas, Arkansas.... More major tornadoes expected today.

[drz]

Gosh, now we can extend this thread to so many people--Okalhoma, Texas, Arkansas.... More major tornadoes expected today.

With the three hundred killed earlier down south and the Joplin tornado this is shaping up as a very deadly year for storms in USA, plus lots of flooding too. It often seems ironic to me that parts of country are in serious drought while others are literally drowning and it seems worse now with effects of global warming.

[Sangye]

I've been thinking a lot about the children on this planet right now. Look at how many major disasters there have been in the past few years that will traumatize millions of kids for their entire lives-- Hurricane Katrina, Asian tsunami, Haiti earthquake, Pakistan floods, Japan earthquake, US tornadoes, Mississippi River and other floods, etc.... This youngest generation is growing up with terrible emotional scars.

[pberggren1]

This is so true Sangye. Many of the children will grow up fine but it still affects their future decision making and relationships.

[drz]

I've been thinking a lot about the children on this planet right now. Look at how many major disasters there have been in the past few years that will traumatize millions of kids for their entire lives-- Hurricane Katrina, Asian tsunami, Haiti earthquake, Pakistan floods, Japan earthquake, US tornadoes, Mississippi River and other floods, etc.... This youngest generation is growing up with terrible emotional scars.

Mankind has been extremely poor stewards of this planet and some of these natural disasters may relate to our destruction of the planet as well as our insistence on trying to build homes in areas that should be left vacant as natural flood plains. Many of the flooded areas in Japan had markers warning people not to build in these low water areas, and these markers had been there many, many years but the people ignored them anyway.


A lot of the flooding in our area is made much worse by our insistence in draining all the natural wetlands that held back the natural snow melt to a much more gentle flow. Now it is all channeled into a race way that is much quicker and overflows the banks and destroys homes where they should never have been built in the first place.

It is sad our children have to pay the price for our destruction of our environment since they contributed very little to cause the problem. Hope they are able to do better and are able to repair some of the damage done to Mother Earth.

[Sangye]

Great post, drz.