This is basically a short personality piece in today's New York Times. But it interested me mainly because of the first sentence. That's the first time that I've heard or read the disaster quantified in quite that way. I'm not sure how they determined that, but I wouldn't quibble too much.
I don't know what Walt has planned for himself. Maybe he wants to be mayor for many years. But I could see him attaining higher office. Like governor. Oh maybe higher. He's a smart, blue isle in a red sea.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — In the weeks before the tornadoes demolished one-seventh of his city, Walter Maddox was doing what mayors in small cities do.
There were health care costs to contain and new fire trucks to consider.
Then his job changed forever, and nothing in his 38 years could have prepared him.
Not his years running a school personnel department, his success on the collegiate football field or even the emotional strength it took to weather parenthood, divorce and remarriage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/us/10voices.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
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