Tropical Storm Fay
It’s a gorgeous night outside. Tropical Storm Fay has come and gone and cleared out most of the weather systems in the area. Tonight is nice, there are still clouds and some wind, but it’s really quite calm.
I’ve spent the last few days confined to my home here in Tallahassee, Florida. The past few days Fay has been moving across the top of the city very slowly. Thankfully, we had a ton of rain and a lot of wind, but nothing else. No severe flooding, no homes destroyed, no one was seriously injured or killed. The rest of Florida and parts of Cuba had it much worse…
Events like these just leave me amazed at the awesome power of nature. When the natural world chooses to use some aspect of it’s power, however small…there is nothing we can do but sit back and watch what happens. There is absolutely no way to combat the natural world.
Sometimes I think that we (collectively, all of humanity), tend to think we are more important than we are. That we can modify our environment to suit us and in doing so thinking we have somehow “tamed” nature. Events like Fay, Katrina, and others around the world just show us how much we are at the mercy of the world.
We cannot possibly hope to control natural events, what happens in the physical systems of the world will happen. We should be reacting to these events, not attempting to control them. Collectively, human beings are not as strong as the natural systems of the world, and we should not attempt to be.
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