There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.
East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography.
Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life.
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.
We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.
So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.
We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
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