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Today at EMPact America, we had a fire drill. A common enough thing for kids in school, but not something adults have to go through very often. Every adult knows what to do when they hear an alarm or see the strobe light flashing.

But do we know what to do?

As the mass of people exited our building and the building next to ours (this was a coordinated drill for the entire campus), we all kind of wandered slowly over to a gathering point that had been designated ...

I saw a few articles in the news about an upcoming Aurora Borealis show for the northern latitudes, which we know is upcoming because scientists watched a solar flare erupt a few days ago, and they know how long it takes to reach Earth, and it struck me that sometimes (but not always) the ratio of nature's beauty to nature's danger is pretty even. We admire Nature's beauty, but we also suffer through natural disasters.

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