Sometimes an F5 tornado will grind the bark off of trees. The cyclone, nature's sandblaster, is full of metal scrap, glass, broken, tile and cement, it turns entire buildings to dust, scrapes the ground down to clay, strips asphalt, lifts & flings sidewalks. Everything pulverized into further grist to grind the earth.
To see a cyclone in the big midwest sky is to look on the angry face of God.
And I often think: Like a cosmic horror, perhaps they make Americans a little crazy.
Americans are Uniquely Vulnerable to Apocalypse Cults, Bad Political Ideas and Fascism Because of Tornados
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I'm being silly, but I do think there is something... haunting about the attempt to graft European agrarian life onto this much bigger landscape that is only superficially similar. The cities, and culture of Native Americans is much older and better adapted to the land and natural environments (and indeed they shaped these environments)
Just plopping down a little English farm village in a place with such a big sky may not end well. Even if it's "temperate" and has similar rainfall.
@futurebird To this I would only add: European agrarian life was already in a kind of crisis (intimately linked to colonization) – the Inclosure Acts, the Holznot, etc. This was not just a thing out of place but a broken thing out of place.
