10 ways grief is like extreme weather:

1
What you've learned how to live with is intense enough to utterly destroy somebody else.

2
If we talk about it for more than a minute, the conversation can get awkward quickly.

3
When it's really bad, we stay inside until we feel it's safe to venture out again. 

4
Nobody knows exactly how long it will take for the really scary parts to pass.

5
Rebuilding always takes longer than we think it will.

6
Denying it will only prolong our troubles. 

7
When it gets really wild, there's no way to get to school or work.

8
Inescapable if you live long enough.

9
Politicians get lobbied hard to shut up about why we experience it.

10
Might just be powerful enough to prompt us to change the world.