This is the second week that storm warning alerts have ruined my plans. One of my friends and my mom has started to receive text messages of storm warnings. Does anyone else get these? Is it just a scare tactic? Last week, my friend made it sound as if some horrible storm was approaching so I stayed home. It didn't even rain. Tonight, I was going to drop my kids off with my mom and go out to a comedy show but now she just told me that she got a storm warning...
weather.com or accuweather.com generally are pretty decent at telling you what's going on. My phone sends me warnings for the area I'm in, though. It squeals like the TVs and radios do when there's a warning. One day while tornado chasing, I got 17 warnings in the span of 2 hours.
Just because 'conditions are favorable' for said storm(s), it could stay nice and sunny all day. That's the down side to the warning alert txt's and some 'storm radios'.
I ignore storm warnings, they bother me. Almost every time it's going to rain we get high wind warnings, high water warnings, flash flood warnings, lightening warnings, tornado warnings, hurricane warnings, and we're going to loose electrical power. So we have to fill up the bathtub, buy some bread and water, close the windows, avoid trees, batten down the hatches, hide in the basement, take alternative routes, avoid standing water, watch out for fallen wires, dodge the flying glass, make emergency plans, and scan the sky for strange cloud formations...and then I forget to get some batteries. It makes me tired just thinking about it.
lol I like intellicast.com because it has little icons on the radar to show if you're in the path of wind, lightening, hail, highwinds, etc.
it has stormed here pretty much every day this summer. I wouldn't ever get anything done if I paid attention to storm alerts.
I get the text messages for storm alerts. I don't let them ruin my plans though. The only thing I pay major attention to are tornado touch downs.
This season has been really an odd one here for major storms. We have had far more alerts than I can ever remember seeing other years. I usually only check on them if I am doing something outside. Now if only they were more reliable.
Same here there’s little doubt when the wind direction is off the ocean with that persistent smell of the sea (dimethyl sulfide) Hotwater
