The Dark Side of Storms & What They Teach Us

Life, Death, Preparedness, Solutions

This one is regarding Hurricane Helene. I’m located on the Gulf Coast of Florida. If you came here for doom porn and videos of catastrophic damage, you have come to the wrong place. See literally all social media and/or YouTube for that, depending on your algorithm’s training and your locale.

I’m going to discuss what isn’t on social media or the news. Going in numbers 1 through 6, From “Death” to “Things That Work” - #5, “Vulnerabilities”, is heavily elaborated on, so you will not see #6 (“Things That Work”) until the bottom of this post.

Everyone has a different story but there’s a few common threads:

1. Death (see prior post or upcoming ones)

2. Loss

3. The need for prayer (incoming post with prayers & spiritual formulas)

4. Alarming lack of empathy (look everywhere, possibly the mirror too)

5. The display of our greatest vulnerabilities: this is the most important so I am going to ELABORATE: (Please at least see section C on lack of connection as this is the most concerning)

   1. Garbage infrastructure and suspect circumstances: In cases like Manatee / Sarasota county during Debbie here in FL, and East TN/West NC’s dam during Helene “failing” yesterday - I think this and several other circumstances were either done intentionally, or best case scenario, a result of gross negligence that conveniently feeds into the necessary land acquisition required to displace and re-place people into 15-minute cities.

      A few examples: