We weren’t prepared. We were just not prepared. Had we known that this may have been the outcome, we would have prepared more for it. We were not ready for this sort of catastrophe. I’ve heard similar words ring out so many times in the last year, I think that it has become the motto of life. Not being prepared. Who is? We weren’t prepared for the devastation of Covid 19, the deaths, the sick, the deaths just by proxy. My mother was one of them. Stay in your house, we told her. She succumbed to pneumonia. My fear was her dying of a blood clot from lack of exercise. But in the end, her lungs couldn’t withstand it. When the doctor had told her less than a year before that she had Pulmonary Fibrosis, she never assumed she wouldn’t make it to the following summer. None of us were prepared. How could we prepare? We didn’t, we grieved, we struggled, we walked through it and dealt with it because that’s all we could do. We adapted. Winter Storm 2021. An estimated 3.2 mil...