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Livestock can be vulnerable and helpless during these storms too.

Jared Carter, from tornado country, has a poem “Early Warning” in his first collection (Work, for the Night Is Coming). The last four lines, about seeing a cyclone “peel the roof off some / Prefabricated egg factory,” have stuck in my mind:

Thousands of hens, who’ve never seen

The light of the sun, or

Touched earth with their beaks,

Go up the funnel like souls to God.

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