John D. Sutter writes for CNN about his walk along the 17-mile tornado path in Moore, Oklahoma:
There’s something about walking that submerges a person in a place. The ambling speed is geared for making observations and conversations. Writers from Bill Bryson to Henry David Thoreau have long observed this. “You must walk like a camel,” Thoreau wrote in an 1862 essay, “which is said to be the only beast which ruminates when walking.” By walking the storm, I wanted to process it – to chew it up, camel-style, and spit out something that made sense.
The piece is worth a read, both for the content and the layout. I’m loving that news sites are increasingly making use of the web’s interactive nature.