Irene....

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As I consider Mother Nature and her daughter Irene....I consider history, and how earthquakes, meteors, glasciers and hurricanes formed this beautiful planet. I think of the utter distruction that created the Grand Tetons, Grand Canyon, and Half Dome at Yosemite, of the Meteor that made the Chesapeake Bay, and the hurricane that created the Outer Banks. We live now eons later, enjoying these things, but fear the things that made them....

The old if a tree falls in the forest.....Well if a hurricane comes up the coast....and man isn't there, and doesn't have a weather channel.... I contemplate the difference, and while I know there will be loss of life, material distruction, devestating stories, there will also be thousands of incredibly uplifting inspirational stories, of man stepping up to assist man in his time of need.
 
Best of luck to everyone on the East Coast. Mother Nature's raw power can be amazing, we have seen it this summer here in the Midwest with record flooding on the Missouri. Hopefully these "natural disasters" (which are only disasters in that humans have chosen to place themselves in harm's way by building along coasts and rivers, nature has been flooding and hurricaning for millions of years and will continue for millions more to come) will remind us humans to respect Mother Nature and remind us that she is ultimately in charge, no matter how much we think we can control her. All the recent flooding in Iowa has prompted some new restrictions on development in floodplains, which is good and will hopefully minimize future "disasters."

Of course there will probably be a right-winger or two claiming that this hurricane is God's punishment for all the liberal lifestyles up in the Northeast, like we heard with Katrina :eek:

Or that all these "natural disasters" are a sign of approaching end times :eek:
 
Goota love it. Naive, optimistic, idealistic... yep. Better than taking the polar oppisate view... jaded, pessimistic, fatalistic.

If I have a choice (oh, and I do), serve me up a lot of wil's viewpoint!
 
Goota love it. Naive, optimistic, idealistic... yep. Better than taking the polar oppisate view... jaded, pessimistic, fatalistic.

If I have a choice (oh, and I do), serve me up a lot of wil's viewpoint!
hee hee....my viewpoint comes from 54 years of my view...these rose colored glasses are incredible!
 
Best of luck to everyone on the East Coast. Mother Nature's raw power can be amazing, we have seen it this summer here in the Midwest with record flooding on the Missouri. Hopefully these "natural disasters" (which are only disasters in that humans have chosen to place themselves in harm's way by building along coasts and rivers, nature has been flooding and hurricaning for millions of years and will continue for millions more to come) will remind us humans to respect Mother Nature and remind us that she is ultimately in charge, no matter how much we think we can control her. All the recent flooding in Iowa has prompted some new restrictions on development in floodplains, which is good and will hopefully minimize future "disasters."

Of course there will probably be a right-winger or two claiming that this hurricane is God's punishment for all the liberal lifestyles up in the Northeast, like we heard with Katrina :eek:

Or that all these "natural disasters" are a sign of approaching end times :eek:

You called it well. bachmann

Good to see Wil back, hope the others who live out that way didn't get too ripped up.
 
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