The Calm before the Storm originated with sailors at sea who often noticed a very peaceful calm just before a mighty storm. This idiom is often figuratively used in real life situations when a calm period in one’s life can suddenly erupt into chaos and challenge.
Today we are expecting Storm Eunice in England and Wales tomorrow morning and there is a sunny calm ahead of that. The Government are about to hold a Cobra Meeting ( not a party this time ) to prepare for worst outcomes. Why the storms are now given names is anyones guess but Dudley hit Scotland and I suppose E now alphabetically follows D. I wonder what Storm will be named F ? ( don’t even go there ).
An optimist like me may say there is often a Storm before the calm and indeed like life troubles they do pass. What we really need to do is prepare to manage the calm and the storm. Many can’t handle calm let alone storm but practice and experience are the tools to use.
Calm can be used for preparation and even preparation for Storm. Storm can be used to build resistance and endurance, reserves to call upon in time of need. Everything passes and in there lies the hope.
I remember the storm of 1987 when the weather forecaster Michael Fish on the BBC completely got it wrong speaking of mild weather when suddenly trees everywhere fell. See link below.
Michael never lived his underplay down and eventually went fishing. America experiences incredible spectrum of weather conditions and the Climate Change purporters tell us that these extreme conditions are the new norm. My son loves storms especially with thunder and lightning in accompaniment. Anyway batten down the hatches , I can hear Eunice in the air now and sleep tight tonight.
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