Bad weather

I do not watch the television and don't read newspapers. It came as a great shock to me today when I read an email from my German friend, describing the most terrible storm that hit them earlier in the week. I am so relieved that he wasn't hurt. I know that some people may be shocked that I am unmoved by the deaths of people I don't know personally. This piece of news is much more upsetting to me, in that I have a close friend involved in it.