Tornadoes

two touched down just ten minutes from my house and killed two people. it's going the opposite way....

so im a lot better now, i HATE tornadoes.

 

Do you live in Eastern PA beause if so it looks like there is more coming.

 

yes, now i just heard there's two blocks on houses on fire 20 mins. from me.

 

I didn't think many tornadoes happened around that area! That sounds really bad.

 

they DON'T happen much here! (if they did i wouldnt get all worked up cause of it)
God, i felt safe here...

now two more funnels are spotted.

i feel like im back in TN....

 

When I was a little kid we lived near Dayton, OH and a small town less than 5 miles away from us was completely levelled, Xenia.

I was in the car with my mom heading home and we heard it on the radio, the sky was completely clear at our house.

 

wow.. do you get a lotta tornadoes in ohio?

 

When I was a kid I remember a lot. We were always going down the basement it seemed like.

I remember actually seeing one when I was maybe 5, we had to take shelter in a rug store.


For some reason there haven't been any right around here since I have been back, but there have been warnings out in the more rural areas.

 

i couldnt imagine living in kansas or something. id be scared to death everytime it storms, i think.

tornadoes make me act like a little bitch.

i did sleep thru an earthquake once though.

 

i went out to columbus(sp?) ohio when i was about 5-6 years old to see my grandfather and other family members. well the tornado alarm thingy went off and i freaked out, screaming "i'm gonna die" over and over again and it turned out to be just a drill. going back out there in july, hopefully, i won't have a repeat of me freaking out.

 

hehe that's funny. you shoulda seen me in TN with the siren going and some dude on a load speaker going "tornado, tornado coming, seek cover"

 

Ha yea, i live in Columbus right now..I liked the old, more standard tornado warning siren, the one that sounds like an air raid is coming.

I noticed they have a newer version with a robotic voice telling you to take cover, it's just a little too apocolyptic now. I like some sense of doom, just not that much.

That would be intense to see those mile wide funnel clouds out in Oklahoma!

 

thats exactly what it sounded like, like an air raid that was coming. thats why i freaked out. i had no clue what was going on.

 

The Weather Channel did an episode of "Storm Stories" on that very same tornado.

Thankfully, we hardly ever get tornadoes around here, and if we do, they're usually minor ones that only cause minimal damage.

 

wow..tornadoes...while i am kinda glad that it's so freakin safe where I live, in a way I wish we had exciting weather here in NZ.... we don't even get fork lightning. Though, I suppose that most of the country, including the capital, Wellington, is built on a fault line. Earthquakes are just so routine

 

Yeah, I've never heard of a tornado in cali either. It's like we've made a deal with the natural disaster Gods to let us slide on all the run of the mill natural disasters and then pay for it all at once when the Big One hits and california falls into the ocean.

Slide now pay later--very california way to do things.

 

I used to live in Indiana, where there were a good 10-20 tornadoes every year. Never really bothered most of us, though. We were just used to it. Plus, they really are amazing things.

Have you ever looked straight up into a funnel cloud, a giant hole with the cloud swirling around it? It was fucking amazing. Huge, black clouds as far as the eye could see, and then this giant hole, through which I could see the stars.

Of course, that later became a tornado that touched down on the other side of the city. But it was still one of the few things I refuse to forget.

 

We have earthquakes and tsunamis, but luckily no tornados.

I am both terrified by and fascinated by them though. I love extreme weather.

 

not to sound ignorant, which i know i am (hah)

um, arent tsunamis, - when it comes down to it, the same as tornadoes? i heard that a few times....

 

A Tsunami is a large ocean wave produced by an underwater earthquake. They can cause a lot of destruction through flooding. They occur mostly in the Pacific.