What We Can Learn From Natural Disasters

For several days, you’ve been hearing our reports of the strong winter storm heading to San Diego that will bring strong winds, an inch or two of rain in most areas with a little more maybe in the local mountains where up to four inches of snow is possible in the highest elevations.

Obviously, a strong storm here in San Diego is very different from a strong storm in other parts of the country. The number and size of tornadoes that left a path of crumbled homes and lives in Kentucky and other nearby states was the kind of storm that doesn’t come along very often anywhere in the country.

But all of us in California can relate to what those people in those states are going through because wildfires in our state and our county through the years have left behind devastation and deaths.

Those here in California and in San Diego County who have lost homes and lost loved ones to raging fires know what it’s like for the still stunned and hurting people whose towns were hit by those massive tornadoes.

Natural disasters, whether caused by tornadoes ripping apart buildings or lightning sparking wildfires that destroy forests and homes, are just that; natural disasters. And nature is not something we as humans can do much about to prevent them from ever happening.

But when they do happen, we can and should work to find better ways to protect us from them…from better building codes to better clearing of forestland.

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