Sometimes, when I hear about natural disasters, I file the news away in my brain under “things I need to care more about but most of the time I don’t.” Awful, I know. But every year it’s essentially the same story over and over: Hurricane in the south, lots of people dead. Tornadoes in the south, lots of people dead. Point is, it’s easy to ignore the same headline over and over when only the number of deaths fluctuate. From a writer’s perspective, it’s done and redundant. Give me something fresh and new. I don’t want more of the same. We can only digest so much bad news.
But sometimes, you have to stop and let the headlines grab you. Let the number of deaths sink in. It’s easier said than done.
Browsing through my morning bookmarks, I came across this photo and it stopped me dead in my tracks. No one believes in the written word more than me, but no words can replicate the feeling I had when seeing this before/after from Joplin.
From the site I found this on:
Before And After of the Day: Missourian Aaron Fuhrman — a self-taught landscape photographer — has been traveling around Joplin, photographing heartrending panoramic shots of the devastation left in the aftermath of Sunday’s tornado.
Fuhrman lined up one of these panoramic photos with a Google Street View screencap of the same intersection to illustrate the comprehension-challenging extent of damage caused by the twister.
[buzzfeed.]
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