I am still thinking about what would be needed to create safe cyber-communities when the main weather culprit is a tornado. I have little question that a solution exists.
Tornado Season Is Deadliest Since 1953 - WSJ.com : "The twister in Joplin comes on the heels last month of the largest one-day outbreak of tornadoes to date, when 226 twisters were reported during a single 24-hour period on April 27, largely in Alabama and Mississippi. All told, the cluster of tornadoes, which continued into the following day, killed more than 340 people."
It is not the number or tornadoes but the number of deaths that should excite us to some form of action which is more than accurate prediction or more copious reporting of the horrendous results.
What this bumps up against is the clear fact that we have hardly begun to think about how to build in a known tornado ally. While there is no fail-safe way to defeat a determined tornado, there are concepts of community and notions of building and placement that could protect people better. We need to move to a 21st century concept of how we will structure out future.
One Day's Tornadoes Took More Than 340 Lives
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