We in America now enter our tornado season. A tornado, for those not familiar with the term, is a wind funnel of varying sizes and powers, similar to cyclones in other parts of the world, only over dry land. Wind speeds can reach in excess of 200 miles per hour and they devastate every thing in their path, lasting only minutes but destroying lives and property.
 We have in the central part of the country what is called ‘tornado alley’ where all the ingredients are just right for this type of storm. Every year thousands lose their homes and some their lives, but still they rebuild and live in the same area with the same threat over and over again. Incidentally, hurricanes have been doubled of what they have been over the last few years.
 

Interestingly, I hear people put the blame on ‘Global Warming’ for the recent upsurge of hurricanes. Well, after doing some research, it seems meteorologists have found that this pattern repeats every 50-60 years, and it has been this way since, as records would reveal it. And it seems that this pattern  will last for ten years or more.
 So, is it Global Warming? Or is it just us the human race looking for a reason that nature seems in a rage as of late, to give better news coverage of these events?
 

Or could it be that we just want to blame everything on someone or something else because of our abusive acts against nature – like, as I have earlier said – moving and settling in areas that were once unsettled and in the process disturbing the natural course of the environment. Now we are paying the price as nature will do what it always has done.
 I recall, millions of years ago, wasn’t there an ‘ice age’ where the polar caps melted changing the landscape of the world? Wasn’t that also Global Warming? Or could it be that nature is correcting itself, adjusting this finely balanced world that we live in? It seems the caps refroze, so it could be that every so many millions of years, the earth has a warm up, thus eventually many, many years from now, the ice caps will melt again, as it is nature’s way, like when lightning starts the forest fires that clears the debris allowing the forest to grow back stronger.
 

My concern is that we tend to look for quick answers, which is dangerous because we live in a world that is a well balanced machine, so to speak. WE MUST BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL in using our modern technology to try to correct what we ‘THINK’ might be wrong.
 When mountain climbers try to conquer a mountain, sometimes they fail or even die, but they don’t blame the mountain for they know and accept the risk. Now, we abuse the world we live in and at this point it may be correcting what we have done, as our bodies do when we get ill, antibodies are formed to correct the problem.
 

Our planet is fragile as it is strong.  It has just the right amount of oxygen and carbon monoxide for breath; the sun is in just the right position so we don’t burn up or freeze, and so on. Maybe we should try to work with nature, instead of correct it, and be more careful of what we do and how we do it. Let’s stop looking elsewhere to place blame, instead, let us look at ourselves and ask how we can change, for as we all know, Mother Nature is a woman and WE KNOW THAT A WOMAN NEEDS SPECIAL ATTENTION FROM TIME TO TIME….