May 232011
When the sirens started blaring across Minneapolis yesterday, I didn’t pay much attention to them. Like a lot of urban residents (especially those of us in the Midwest), I don’t give much thought to natural disasters in general or tornadoes in particular. Of course, tornadoes are quite capable of striking metropolitan areas and one did exactly that in north Minneapolis, just a few miles from my place in downtown. It caused extensive damage and, to make matters worse, the North Side is already struggling with the recession’s aftermath. Best wishes to my fellow Minneapolitans as they rebuild their neighborhoods. I won’t so casually ignore those sirens in the future.
