Comments on: The Morning After

By: Earl Green

Earl Green — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:33:56 +0000

I lived barely a block away from ground zero of the 1996 Fort Smith tornado, which was a much smaller storm, but when you’re talking about a part of town filled with 100+ year old brick buildings which don’t really have a building code to live up to because they’re “historic”… it was bad enough. So I don’t take people’s suffering for granted – all it has to be is “bad enough.” To this day I can’t go to sleep knowing there are storms inbound. And like someone whose home has been broken into and invests in a really expensive security system, I spend quite a bit of money on storm tracking software that you could probably run a TV station’s weathercast with.

But yeah, when it comes down to it, I’m still going to be crammed into a closet with my kid and five cats and a couple of dogs and all the fleas they’ve brought in from the yard, hoping that this isn’t where the story ends with me in a hole in the ground.

The gulf between “knowing what’s going on” and “being able to do more about it than my distant simian ancestors were able to do” is still a pretty wide one.

By: Matthew Jackson

Matthew Jackson — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:35:42 +0000

Geez. I know that neighborhood. That’s S. Silverleaf Drive. The image is turned funny, but those little culdesacs are SE5th and SE7th Court and SE 6th St running between them. There is an Oil and Lube shop there just off Eastern and a Church of God across the street with a Walmart Neighborhood Market and a CVS there close. I know, because I lived on Silverleaf for a year when there in Moore. Rented a house right smack dab in the middle of that debris path.

By: Ben Lid

Ben Lid — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:28:09 +0000

Really good article Flack. It helps to bring the reality a little closer to home.