From WSJopinion: A storm that spawns a tornado might be mere hours old and almost as complex as the tornado itself. Tornadoes defy explanation as completely as they defy prediction, writes Daniel Lee
Wonder Land: Following 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, Congress spent billions on a Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System, a real infrastructure project that Democrats should learn from. Images: USACE/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyActivists wasted no time attributing last week’s tragic tornado outbreak in the Midwest to climate change. My hometown in southwest Indiana would like a word.
Princeton, Ind., was the final community struck by the terrible 1925 Tri-State tornado outbreak—still the nation’s worst—that killed nearly 700 people and injured thousands more across Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. When I was in high school 50 years later, people still talked about this extreme weather outbreak. I had friends whose families lost people. Older folks who remembered the tornado’s ferocity would scan the skies with a special concern as storm season began every spring.
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