Nature Doesn’t Care

To the Editor:

I recently received a recording of my 3-year-old granddaughter reporting new words she learned at day care. The words were “inappropriate” and “dangerous.”

I can only imagine these words were used to correct bad behavior. I was impressed that her care giver used them.

As I read the many commentaries on the flooding event in Kerrville, those words came to mind.

Posts of a former Houston Mayoral Democrat appointee, Sade Perkins, reported her comments on Camp Mystic; “It is a White-only conservative Christian camp,” Perkins said.” She posted on her own blog that she was “almost happy that we lost over a hundred people, the majority of them children, in this flash flood in Texas.” Very inappropriate.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer looking to blame cuts to the National Weather Service staff for the devastating loss of life. Again, very inappropriate.

The rush to assign racial or political blame to any natural disaster is a dangerous distraction from the real issues.

As Diane Furchtgoff-Roth said in her analysis in The Telegraph, “More will be gained by focusing less on partisan finger-pointing. Nature doesn’t care who sits in the Oval Office.”

Cindy Rodibaugh Flatonia