Our thoughts and prayers go out to those who have suffered as tornadoes ripped through five U.S. States (Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Arkansas).

At least 55 people have been killed and hundreds more have been injured in what was the deadliest barrage of tornadoes for almost 23 years. The terror, suffering and destruction can only be imagined.

Nature is our origin and our succour. Nature's forces can also be terrible in their power, ferocity and inexorability.

Qui me alit, me extinguit (Shakespeare sums up the paradox: Pericles - Prince of Tyre).

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