Deplorable incompetence resulting in untold deaths. Think it could not happen in Illinois? Granted we are pretty far north for hurricane impacts of the magnitude we are seeing in the Southeast but 3 words resonate tht reminds us this could be us.

Those 3 words are the New Madrid Fault. In 1811 an earthquake of major magnitude hit Southern Illinois , a quake so powerful it literally changed the course of the Mississippi River and allegedly ran church bells in Boston. So yes a serious natural disaster could hit here and cripple us to the degree we are witnessing in North Carolina and elsewhere so this article resonates.