Texas Flooding

We have had so many horrific, devastating storms, wild fires, hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes and other disasters that it becomes just another story in the news.

Yet, I read a recap of the flash flood that killed so many people that I couldn’t even finish the article because it was simply too sad.

And, of course, there can’t be a disaster or a mass shooting or any other tragedy without the instantaneous pointing of fingers.

Usually the blame is passed around along red or blue lines, as if being on the right side of the argument will somehow lessen the tragedy.

It’s so hard to even imagine how something like this might happen.

,Was there a lack of prognostication?

Was it due to recent cuts?

Is it climate change related?

I don’t know any of the above answers, but I’m certain that the weather has changed in the course of my lifetime.

The wild fires seem more deadly.

The hurricanes bring wide swaths of utter destruction.

And the heat!

How can we protect our citizenry from such catastrophic events?

There’s a movement afoot to wipe out FEMA, leaving the states to fend for themselves.

That also doesn’t seem as if it will help.

Losing everything you own in a matter of minutes is hard to fathom.

People losing their lives in preventable disasters, or disasters that could be lessened by following the science…

…well, it’s all just so sad.

Trying hard not to assign blame, but deep down, it feels like we can do better, and it is important that efforts are made because these ‘once in a century’ events seem to happen every six months or so.

And it’s a matter of life and death.

Those poor people.

God help them.