A macro view of my micro comments


I believe I heard thunder earlier.  Might have been a sick automobile, though.  Or kids with fireworks.  Not much rain, a little windy, no damage locally.  Power and cable (really!) still working.

Overprepared.  Happy.  Except for the one accident in the news.  High speed, rain, wind and an idiot behind the wheel of an expensive car.  One dead, one critical.  There's no going back, it's over for that one.   Wonder if given the chance, the same choices would be made by all involved.  Bad choices have bad outcomes.  Law of nature, that one.  Mother Nature can be terribly unforgiving of her creatures.  Gravity and physics are fairly exact sciences, with circumstances dictating outcomes with reliable certainty.  Coefficient of friction reduced below ability to steer,  choice was made to drive at a speed not consistent with safety of fragile human bodies. Then the inertia of thousands of pounds (I know weight isn't mass, so don't try to correct me) of metal is transferred to a few hundred pounds of those bodies' flesh and bone. A split second, and then sirens and flashing lights, ambulances and a helicopter, hospital and morgue.  All because of a bad decision.

Perhaps it was just time for that one to go.  Perhaps, if the storm had been worse, the death might have come from lightning, or drowning in a flash flood.  That could not have been avoided with human perceptions and reactions.  But there was no reason behind the death in an automobile whose driver was too stupid to realize the danger.  Yes I said stupid.  There is an incredible amount of information easily available on the hazards of driving too fast for conditions.  How did this moron get a license to drive? No, I'm not blaming society for the death, just wondering how much longer we will continue to allow incompetent people to have control over other's safety.  Is it our responsiblility?  Or do we just clean up afterward? 

Hurricanes are so messy.


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