RICK MORAN on living through a tornado. Note this passage: “Two decades ago, there almost certainly would have been fatalities in Streator. Back then, we were lucky to get five minutes of warning. Now, with our new understanding of tornadoes — how they form, what feeds them, Doppler radar images, and an idea of their path of destruction — precious minutes of warning are granted those in the path of these killers.”

Technology does save lives. That’s one reason why I got one of these weather radios after hearing a similar story.