Warning and Watch Scott Beal
Today I told a four-year-old people can be struck by lightning. So now she has that to worry about. Brilliant timing, with the sky bunching its fists and tuning its drums. Studies prove what we see is no roll of smoke from a celestial palace collapsing. We’re schooled in the degrees between warning and watch. I rushed the kids to cower inside. Then stood and saw the hull of a warship cross slowly over my roof. No pause or cannon blast. It carried its cargo and arsenal unhurried toward the horizon as I gaped from the bottom of the sea.
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