Memory of Hampton teen lives on 10 years later

The butterfly effect operates on the notion that one single action, no matter how small, or unassuming has a permanent effect on the ensuing course of time and space. In 1961, a meteorologist named Edward Lorenz simulated weather patterns based on 12 variables that, when altered by even a fraction of a decimal, altered the course of weather patterns permanently. Lorenz suggested that the tiny flap of a butterfly’s wings could ultimately cause a tornado across the globe, earning the name, “the butterfly effect.”
For most in Hampton who knew him, Robert “Bob” Strand flapped his wings, and like the butterfly effect suggests, eternally changed their lives. But also like the butterfly effect, a series of small, random and unrelated events led to the Hampton-Dumont graduate’s untimely, tragic death 10 years ago.
The entire story appears in the May 31 print and online editions of the Hampton Chronicle.