Kim McClain, is a research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies. She has traveled to hard-hit cities and towns to understand why people got killed in storms that she says "really should be survivable as long as people can get to the right shelter."<\/p>\n\n
In an interview with NPR, McClain was asked to explain why people failed to heed weather warnings:<\/p>\n\n
We give people days of alert that their general region may be threatened. But people are really savvy about this. They know that even if a region in general is at risk, that doesn't necessarily mean there will be a tornado that hits their house. So people wait until things get quite close until they make those calls. For tornadoes, they typically wait until they're under a warning and then there are just a couple of minutes. Then all they can really do is shelter in place.<\/p>\n\n
People are doing what we call "confirming the threat." And they do this … on a continuous basis. They'll be watching, and maybe they'll go get their children. But they won't necessarily take shelter until things get a little bit closer.<\/p>\n\n
Possible Preaching Angles: Human nature remains the same throughout history. Warnings were also given to the people of Noah’s time (Matthew 24:38-39), the people in Sodom (Genesis 19:14), and those who heard the message of Peter (Acts 2:40). Sadly, most ignored those warnings until it was too late.<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[411],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3621,3716,3731,3787,3934,4141,4181,4380,4527,4733,4785,4874,4877,4901,4903,5140,5261],"tax_ctp_topics":[397],"class_list":["post-38667","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-circumstances","tax_ctp_tags-crisis","tax_ctp_tags-danger","tax_ctp_tags-disaster","tax_ctp_tags-faith-circumstances","tax_ctp_tags-help-from-god","tax_ctp_tags-human-nature","tax_ctp_tags-listening","tax_ctp_tags-nature-of-human","tax_ctp_tags-protection","tax_ctp_tags-refuge","tax_ctp_tags-safety","tax_ctp_tags-salvation","tax_ctp_tags-security","tax_ctp_tags-security-in-god","tax_ctp_tags-testing","tax_ctp_tags-warning"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"\n