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Trees grow up and trees fall down. Rivers rise into floodplains. Human settlements among trees and along floodplains are left as fragments in the aftermath of nature’s awesome power. We start over. We clean up messes. We, the humans affected by nature’s power, meet the challenges with strength and patience, until both ebb with the passing of days. Today’s big story is the struggle to restore electrical power and internet communication, those links to civilization broken and buried under mountains of tree debris, or washed away in wild and raging rivers.

This is not the fault of trees.

This is not the fault of water.

This is not the fault of wind.

This is the way the physical world works according to the laws of nature.

Eventually, years and generations from now, we may even forget the tragedies. ~K