Recently I have been reminded of how powerful Mother Nature is and the respect we should have for it. Just yesterday a tornado hit my hometown of Suffolk and completed obliterated parts of the city. Our recently built hospital had sections missing, a shopping complex built three months ago had completely collapsed, and friends that I graduated with had their homes destroyed. It is amazing, yet terrifying, the monstrosities that nature can accommodate to us. Within a couple minutes everything that our city has worked for can disappear. This triggered another memory of a devastating event to my local area in 1999—Hurricane Floyd. Our neighboring county was living underneath the water and my neighbors were in rowboats to go from house to house the following days. Yet, along with catastrophe, nature can bring peace and solace with things such as a cool breeze on a warm summer day or a beautiful rainbow in the sky after a rainy afternoon. Nature has a way of reminding you of its preeminence just when you begin to forget.
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