We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky.
Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.
America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.
So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media's all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.
I've never seen a tornado and I've lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It's not like we're infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can.