Hurricane watch

Connor and Ari and I were listening to the Frozen soundtrack in the car.

At one point, the "Do you want to build a snowman?" song goes into instrumentals, and the music gets heavy with bass and sweeping violin.

"This is where Elsa and Anna's parents die," Ari commented.

"That's true,"  I said.  "It was a very bad storm."

"But why did they die?  Why didn't they use the watch?" he asked.

I explained that the movie was set over a hundred years ago, and that in those days, they didn't have satellites in the sky to give us information about hurricanes.  People only knew a storm was coming when they could see it with their own eyes.

"But... couldn't they tell it was time for a hurricane from their watches?" he wanted to know.

His innocence was adorable.  Of course!  A hurricane watch.

We spent the next five minutes discussing the concept of watching to see if a storm was coming, versus the object that tells time on your wrist.

In the end, he got it, and we moved on to the next song.