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Thinking hard about the people in Oklahoma who were hit by the tornado.  The photos of the storm were terrifying--like something out of a B science fiction movie.  But in a movie, the self-serving crooks and bad-guys are punished by the forces of nature, and the good guys are plucky and survive.

In real life Nature is not so selective, nor does it adhere to a neat fictional narrative.  You can't argue with a storm like that, or pull a gun, or try out that cool move the sensei taught you.  You can, if you have time and your wits about you, prepare, hide, and pray/hope that you'll survive enough to clean up.

And I feel like I'm living in the early days of an SF apocalypse--one we could actually dodge, if we were smart. This is the how-manyeth killer storm in the last few years?  I recycle and conserve water and take public transportation and do as much to be virtuous, environmentally, as I can, but unless the people in power take this seriously, I don't see us sliding uphill from the mess the human race has made...