I've been following the news about how Katrina wrecked havoc in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina has been renamed Disaster Katrina, as now 80% of New Orleans lies either underwater or completely destroyed, because of the 170km/h winds and the resulting levee breaks.
Living a charmed life in little sheltered Singapore, I've never had the opportunity of experiencing a gale, much less a full-blown hurricane. Lying right at the tip of the Malaysian Peninsula, we're sheltered and protected by our larger neighbours, from tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes and the rest of Mother Nature's outbursts.
We're like Mother Nature's favourite and youngest child. She hides her anger from us, and thetail-end of her fury she spews at us, our 'big' brothers bear the brunt of her wrath for us. To encounter Mother Nature in all her wrath, and to see the full force and energy as she flings hurricanes, or erupts cities, and spews forth flash floods and tsunamis would be frightening and awesome thing. There'll be no stopping the destruction that will ensue from her moments of outrage.
If I could see her in all her awesome wrath, it will humble me..... I think that's why we have people who insist on getting as near as they cn to active spewing volcanoes and chase tornadoes. They just have to see for themselves the rawness of Mother Nature's fury.
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