Our thoughts and prayers are certainly with the people of
Oklahoma this week. We many times wonder how God can allow such carnage among so many innocents. I was always taught that God tested our faith
constantly and when something like this happens he takes those who perish into
his arms and gives them eternal life in heaven.
The real sufferers are those that are left behind to deal with the
tremendous hurt. We people on this
continent of North America are subject to many potential catastrophes. The west
coast and Alaska are subject to massive earthquakes and in some cases the
possibility of volcanic activity. The
Heartland has its tornado alley, the south its hurricane and tornado
potential. The east coast has been hit
with terrible storms causing chaos and costly damage to the infra structure of
the entire area. In each case the people
of America have stood by ready to help.
It does not matter the politics of the people involved, the American
people will stand with the people of Oklahoma as they rebuild their lives. This will be a real test for FEMA as they are
still reeling from hurricane Sandy.
There is an opportunity to learn from this and any tragedy as
specialists in construction will be pouring over the wreckage to develop new
and stronger methods for home construction in the tornado prone areas.
Why not community shelters in prone areas where when we have
a 10 to 15 minute warning the people could go to. This could be at park or any green space in
the area. It would not be an expensive
project if they would do away with the red tape and union interference and allow
the counties and residents to work together to build it. Many lives were saved in London during WWII
by having bomb shelters that were accessible to the public. The
tornado's may never come through again but just knowing that there was shelter
available would be a blessing. All
schools in tornado prone areas should be built with a subterranean shelter
offset from the school large enough to house the students and teachers;
equipped with water, first aid stores, blankets and enough M.R.E. meals to see
them through a 48 hr period. Each should
have a propane generator piped to the outside large enough to support lighting
and supplying outside air and a port-a-potty wouldn’t hurt. This could be constructed under the playground
in an area that would not be potentially covered by massive debris.
In the past we had Air Raid Wardens whose responsibility it
was to organize and control shelters.
These were selected by the community.
It could be a similar post in the case of tornado shelters as someone
has to be responsible for the distribution of food etc.
If these sounds too expensive just ask the parent of child
lost during this storm and they will tell you they would do anything to undo
what has happened.
I just want to say God Bless America, we are a unique
society that is always ready to come together for each other regardless any of differences in our backgrounds, religion or political belief when tragedy strikes.
That’s my opinion, what’s yours today?
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