Over the past few days, Oklahoma
City suburbs were ravaged by a massive tornado. The number of dead from the beginning
of the tornado has reached over 20 and the numbers have been rolling up. The
massive tornado has been listed as one of the largest seen ever in the city and
had a base size of several kilometers. Landing on the ground and eventually
covering close to 24 miles of damage, this tornado completely decimating the
area, leaving hundreds homeless, injuring over 200 and doing all of this, completely
by surprise. This event that has ruined the lives of hundreds of people had
started and ended in the small period of less than 40 min. This is such as
short period of time, but it still managed to devastate the local population. What
has hurt the community the most was the death of 9 small children in the event.
This
is an awful and tragic. What is worse is that we could not have seen it coming.
This might be tornado season, but it is very hard to figure out when these
types of things can happen. It is like trying to predict when a volcano will
erupt. We can say that it is 100,000 years overdue to explode, but that does
not mean that it will tomorrow. It could stay dormant for the next 100,000,000
years just because. What we all find hurtfully is that so many people had to
die for a meaningless cause. These natural disasters should be avoidable, if
not by public services that are provided (such as bunkers or safe houses). When
you get right down to it, there was no real foreseeable way that we could have
seen this coming, so all we can do not is prepare for the next one.
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