Natural Disasters

Everyone in my family knows I am a HUGE fan of the natural disaster movie genre.  I have probably seen just about everyone ever made. I especial love Natural Disaster days on the sci-fi channel (no comments needed on what a nerd I am as I am aware of this already).  There are the earth is being destroyed from space days where they show movies like Meteor and Sun Storm.  Then there are the volcano movies gotta love a good eruption.  There are enough volcano movies to fill a whole weekend vs. a day.  Of course you have all the climate change movies and while they have a decided leftist agenda I still love them.  The earthquake movies now there aren't as many of those that play on Sci-Fi but the ones they do show are mini series' so they could fill a week! Why I love these I am not sure but I will schedule my weekend around a good disaster day.

Of all of these movies though one of the most memorable scenes is from the movie Deep Impact a space impact film about a comet about to hit the earth.  While total world wide destruction is avoided they are not able to save the East Coast.  Téa Leoni's character dies in the end.  In the scene you see her standing on the shore embracing death as a Tsunami hits the coast.  It is a pretty dramatic scene.

I really do love those movies in particular I love that they are FICTION.  What Japan faced in the middle of the night last night (in my time zone anyway) and what is headed towards Hawaii right now is NOT fiction. It is huge and it is scary.  Of all the "natural disasters" I enjoying watching movies about I think other than a world wide ice age Tsunamis are probably the most destructive and the most terrifying.  This has the potential to leave such destruction in it's path. Last I heard there where Tsunami alerts for New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and others.

I am praying for all those who will be affected.  It just goes to show you that we can divide ourselves up into nations, countries, or states but the truth is we all live on this planet and we are more connected than we think.

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