A serious question for DUers watching tornado coverage

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13. We all used to sit around a fire and tell each other stories. We did that for 100,000 years.

We want to know the stories of others. In a case like this it 1) makes you horrified 2) makes you glad for the heroics and to be part of that part of the human race that includes such wonderful people 3) makes you feel lucky to be so safe in your own world and hold your family a little tighter 4) makes you wonder about climate change and that perhaps you will pay attention to the next news story about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. 5) Makes you sad for the loss of life and injuries. 6)You learn stuff (that is why you have the ability to speak - to learn stuff). 7)You reconnect to the world a little wiser about humanity, even if it is only a tiny bit. I know as a kid I used to hear the oral tradition from my grandmother who was born in 1898. Her husband was born in 1882. He was a country doctor, she was a country nurse. Before radio was invented. All they had were their stories. I listened, hard, to my grandmothers stories. It is bred in my bones.