Hardly pedictable

I hear a siren moving down the road in the distance at this moment.  At the same time the television is on to storm coverage in the area.  A newsman is interviewing a woman whose house had been hit by a tornado.  Across the street from her is a house that was completely gutted by a tornado.  5 people are reported dead in one suburb and two in another.  11 tornadoes have been reported.  In the town where the first tornado hit, two church buildings have been leveled and their membership had gathered on the property already cleaning up.  One of the towns had a tornado touchdown on its interstate highway and threw 10 cars off an overpass as it passed through the area.  Rain is pounding my house as I write and it's about the 7th or 8th wave of such heavy rain, lightning, and thunder.

It has been  a rather historical day.  Not just the fact of a tornado on this date in history.  There have been two others.  One in 1984 killing one person, and one in 1957 killing none but damaging a big area of the western part of the city.  But never 11 tornadoes and never more than one person killed on this date as a result.  Christmas was a historical day for warm temperature also. 

The year is almost over.  It has been a record setting year for weather from the day January started until the close of the year.  Rain records were set.  Number of days without rain was set.  Drought started the year.  A spring of flooding ended the drought.  The heat of the summer produced a string of days without rain bringing back the drought that records rains had corrected.  Now it's wet again.

Not only the world of weather can be have cycles of craziness, but humans also can have the same crazy cycles.  Just when one problem gets fixed another problem begins.  When that situation has passed, then the old problem resurfaces.

As I finish the blog tonight, rain has completely stopped but only for the moment.  More can be seen coming on the radar.  The wettest year on record just got a little wetter.  The tornadoes ended the year in spectacularly destructive fashion.  In life terms, one of the craziest years is also coming to a close.  I have had 3 major plan changes during the year.  Other issues have been roller coaster rides as well.

Whatever.  Life goes on despite the calamity-related weather and despite calamity-related life-situations.  Who wants to live a predictable, placid life anyway.  I am glad to bring it to an end though.  Each year is different.  I am entirely grateful for that.