The article reflects on a writer's experience during a powerful EF-3 tornado in St. Louis while discussing their mother's impending funeral over the phone with a rabbi. As the storm raged, the writer felt an eerie calmness amidst the chaos, likening the storm's destructive nature to the earlier experiences of caring for their ailing mother. The chaos of the tornado, marked by shattered windows and uprooted trees, brought a realization about the fragility of life and the interconnectedness of mortality and nature's forces.
Yet it was paradoxically the sense of calm amid chaos that gripped me; a feeling as though the winds, while fierce, were somehow a part of the cycle of life.
I witnessed nature's raw power and realized that, much like the frailty of my mother, the trees and structures too were susceptible to the whims of the winds.
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