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WotD: Perfect storm
A perfect storm doesn’t occur often, but the result is often disastrous or catastrophic when it does.
A perfect storm is a disaster created by a combination of extreme or bizarre factors coming together in a way that could not have been anticipated.
If nothing comes to mind, let me jog your memory with a few ideas: World War One, World War Two, The Spanish Flu, and finally, the COVID-19 pandemic.
A perfect storm is a disaster created by a combination of extreme or bizarre factors coming together in a way that was not anticipated.
Do you now understand what a perfect storm is?
At the outbreak of war in 1914, no one thought it would last four years and devastate Europe.
Once the war was over, it was referred to as the Great War, the war to end all wars.
Yet 20 years later, a combination of forces came together in a perfect storm to start another world war.
Leaders failed to learn from the past, creating the situation for the perfect storm by failing to predict the end of empires, the devastation of Europe (again) and the creation of a new world power in the form of The United States of America.
Are we currently in the midst of a perfect storm – a combination of extreme factors coming together in a way that could not have been anticipated?
The perfect storm may be brewing in the world.
If we don’t come up with a solution soon, we might be facing an extremely unpleasant situation with disastrous results.
America is divided, China is belligerent, COVID-19 has spread worldwide, the supply chain is a mess, and climate change is accelerating.
Instead of coming together, the world is quickly drifting apart.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 62.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.