Here in Montgomery County, PA we had ONE tornado ONCE about 5 years ago
and it was a seminal moment in my life. I was driving home and saw the funnel cloud clearly over my neighborhood which was about 1 mile away. The sky and the winds were nothing like I had ever seen and I turned around as fast as I could and drove away from the cloud which shortly dissipated. The four of us in the car were terrified and we still talk about that day: we were fortunate that the funnel skipped over a few houses including mine but there were trees and roofs destroyed all around us and power was out for two days. Remarkably, I found a piece of wood wherein the bark was stripped off so cleanly that the wood was polished and shiny underneath as though a carpenter had worked on it for hours to sand and shine it.
The point is, just ONE event was extremely traumatic: I give the people who live in these areas all the credit in the world for being able to survive, rebuild if necessary, and move on if they can. My heart goes out to these individuals who are subjected to these remarkably destructive forces of Nature. We shall see if Mr. Cantor and his minions feel that they are 'worthy' of aid and comfort from the Federal Government.