More Severe Weather

While we were in downtown Springfield on Saturday night, we got a little nervous when a large party seated at another table in a Japanese restaurant started talking about a tornado someplace. We knew we were safe, but our house and dogs and pet nanny were back in Arkansas. After watching the news, we learned the tornado hit another section of Missouri, not far from where we were in Springfield.
When I awoke in the middle of the night, on the 9th floor of our hotel, I was once again sent into a little panic to find we had lost power. Although it had been off for nearly two hours, it quickly came back on and I relaxed again.
And then the next morning we learned that our pet nanny had been without power to the house since the night before due to the severe wind.
Last night, another tornado watch.
This is how it's been for us since February 3rd, when the first round of severe weather and tornadoes cut a wide path of destruction in Gassville, just about 18 miles from our home.
Weather forecasters can't seem to agree. El Nina? Global warming? And some simply say there is no explanation.
I'm of the personal opinion that it is something we've done to the earth and to the atmosphere. Our earth is warning us, and we're just not getting the message.