I didn't even hear about it this time. There's a website with five hundred photos of these most recent wildfires, but no one's talking about it around here. Are we just used to it by now? I wonder if Californians talk about it. How often can something happen before you just get used to it?
Yesterday we got out of school early because of the threat of tornados. Tornados didn't even cross my mind as I realized I could go back to my room on the (unsafe in a tornado) third floor and work on all the projects I have due before the semester ends. Some people grumbled that they hoped the housing staff wouldn't lock us in the theatre again, but that was the biggest concern we had. Tornados are old hat. Even when a tornado hit a high school near where I lived and killed some students, the next time a storm rolled around, no one really cared. There are exceptions (a friend of mine covers the furniture in plastic so it won't get ruined if something happens to the roof, then demands that enveryone gather their precious belongings and huddle in the basement), but for the most part, severe weather isn't that interesting. Natural death threats are a pain, not a worry. Even airport security, an unnatural phenomenon, is annoying.
Death does not disturb us. Is that instinct, or are we simply used to it?
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