Praying or designing better housing?

Following another deadly tornado in Alabama this past Sunday that left at least 23 dead, I was struck when I heard a local official say that the only think people could do was “pray.”

Pray to whom and for what?

This, in my opinion, won't achieve much. It would be preferable to draw some conclusions about the inadequate housing and lack of tornado-proof home designs that could in the future minimize the dire consequences of such a devastating weather phenomenon that is simply likely to intensify as climate changes.

I've in the past noted that building code in tornado-prone regions should evolve to protect more against this scourge, but it appears that prevention isn't such a high priority after all.

This has to change if we are not to repeat Einstein's admonition: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. »