By Leah McClellan
Imagine an asteroid or a meteor is heading toward the earth. Astronomers get the warnings out a week before it’s scheduled to hit. We’re told it will break up into little pieces as it hits the earth’s atmosphere, so it won’t be the end of the world.
But there will be widespread destruction, devastation, injuries, and deaths.
We know it’s coming. We can prepare, to a certain extent, by hunkering down in designated safe (or safer) buildings.
But there’s no way to escape it.
We try to get on with our work, play, and responsibilities, but it’s impossible to ignore the reality.
That’s how I’ve been feeling since a week ago today, knowing that conditions were ripe for a major hurricane to travel up the east coast of the U.S.
I’m a “Weather Channel junkie.”... More...
