Tornado In New York

Those of you who doubt climate change is really happening should have lived through what we here in New York just experienced.

A tornado in Brooklyn just seemed a little too "The Day After Tomorrow" to me.

Another Casualty Of Iraq: A Small Kansas Town

Governor Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kansas) admitted today the cleanup after the devastating tornado that wiped Greensburg off the face of the earth is slowed because the Kansas National Guard is short in personnel and equipment because of the war in Iraq.

Kansas should have 70%-80% of the equipment needed to send the National Guard to respond to events such as this one, but currently Kansas only had about 40% according to the Governor.

It's sad that we here in the United States cannot attend to our own people and help out our own when they face disaster, because all of our energy and equipment is getting blown up in Iraq.

Where are the priorities?

Kansas' Worst Weekend

Photo by Jaime Oppenheimer/The Wichita Eagle

Sometimes, when you see entire towns, entire lives just blown away in storms, you wonder about your own neighborhood.

I live in the middle of New York City. If this was to ever happen here, the world would know and they would respond in a second, they'd have to. You can help, though, and wonder about small town America and all those small towns we saw over the years be wiped away by the worst weather events on earth.

Like Xenia, Ohio, Dunlap, Indiana, Homestead, Florida, Andover, Kansas, Moore, Oklahoma, Jarrell, Texas, New Orleans and The Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast, Enterprise, Alabama, The Villages, Florida.

I wonder how they are today, and I wonder what advice they have for the people of Greensburg.

Alabama Tornadoes Thread

Photo: Associated Press

When we all got up this morning, there was a beautiful piece of Americana here...a normal high school in a small American town, Enterprise, Alabama. A high school full of teenagers whose biggest worries were crushes, proms, papers and tests. In a flash, Mother Nature changed that.

Life is fragile and it only takes a moment for it to change forever.