As the weekend went on, the miracles kept coming the kindness of the scattered police, the 'food-drop' by an Army helicopter, and flowers from the sky.

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Dean and seven of his tourists found themselves near El Reno last week on the jam-packed roads when the deadly twisters began to drop from the sky.

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This makes the international decline look slightly eerie: blackbirds drop from the sky, plagues slacken and end, and there seems no absolute reason that societies leap from one state to another over time.

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They ignore the fact that crises always have a root cause, and they treat crises as if they just drop in from the sky at any moment.

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