The Gathering Storm

 At 5:41 PM on a peaceful spring Sunday afternoon a terrifyingly powerful Tornado hit Joplin, Mo. I listened to the event live over an emergency network. The full impact of the storm would not be known for hours but even in the first few minutes we knew this event was catastrophic. Within minutes well over a thousand residents would be dead or injured and damages of over 2 billion dollars would be inflicted to this small city. A ten story hospital was completely destroyed and patients were literally blown out of the hospital and later found blocks away. I know much more detail from working with many of the rescuers that were there during that night and the next several days, and can only say the description of the carnage was unimaginable. 

There were a number of lessons learned from this disaster, but of course as in most disasters there really was no good way to be totally prepared for the total devastation a multiple vortex EF 5 tornado can inflict on a concentrated urban population. I still work with some of the people that were in that hospital that day and can only say they share one feeling in common and that is a feeling of total helplessness as the storm struck. 

I have often posted that we are susceptible in so many ways to an even more catastrophic force of Nature coming our way and that preparing for this event may be the only way to have a chance at surviving it long term. THAT is NOT why I buy physical gold and silver. Its not an insurance policy for that catastrophic storm. Gold and silver is for an economic storm that is LESS than an EF 5 event. Food, water, shelter, and land is for the more extreme event that many began to feel was about to land on our shores in 2008.

Instead we are wallowing in a field of malinvestment created by a Fed policy of deception and money printing. The very weakest and worst investors for our country are being supported by this policy creating a future foundation for our country of pure quicksand. This policy WILL have ramifications as the weakest elements of our society become the support for our next cycle. Without clearing of these elements no strength will be generated so the strongest survivors can begin the process of leading our regeneration. 

I buy silver and gold because I am an optimist that we won’t be hit by and EF 5 disaster of epic proportions. I believe that nature will clean the weakest of the past supercycle and it will provide one brick of the next financial foundation. gl