Environmental Writing

Seeing all the pictures from the Time article is shocking and depressing. I can only imagine the feeling of walking through some of the flooded streets, buildings destroyed, trees thrown everywhere like they were nothing by the brute force of the storm. The lives of so many people that lived there were devastated, many of their possessions forever ruined. And the hopeless feeling that help might never come. I can't relate too much to all of the rain storms and hurricanes, as I haven't had too many personal experiences with either. At most, part of my basement will flood. I don't have too many feelings of tragedy from my home town environment. I can relate more to the tragedies of storms of snow and ice from where I'm from. The most tragic feeling I get from the environment is that of the countless car wrecks caused by the terrible snow storms that seem to happen every year. The flurry makes it nearly impossible to see, and the ice only adds to the danger of the streets. The cold reaches record lows, and the wicked wind seems to tear through any layers of warmth you might be wearing. On many days you don't even want to step outside to bear even a bit of the bitter weather.