Nature Rules Our Lives

Tornadoes and floods all around Des Moines since Sunday night. A trailer park got hit early Monday a.m. north of town, and all the local news shows showed a trailer house that had a board flung through the side of a trailer into a lady's bedroom just after she got out of the room. And a couple of lowlying river bottom areas that got flooded in the big June floods got flooded again and everyone in the area had to be taken out by rowboat again. And the main news of today is the 5.8 earthquake that hit California this morning. No one killed, but like in New Orleans during Katrina the cellphone towers went out for a while. Much talk on cable news about whether this is a prelude to the Big One that is predicted to hit Cal. sometime. Yesterday on NBC Brian Williams got an interview in Iran with Nejad, who was on good behavior and was loving peace and didn't want to nuke anyone and was being misunderstood. He was still being nice today, but like Khrushchev way back when will probably get back on his high horse tomorrow or very soon. It is getting late, so I am going to wind up this entry now, and hope that things are quiet and nice the next time I hit the keyboard. Wishful thinking probably. So, you all take care and we will return in the near future. Di di mau!