Category: the Rant Board
Well, it's been a hell of a day in the arklatex. We've had a ton of severe weather, and some isolated tornados. While I am very greatful I was not personally asalted by a tornado, it seems as if this place is full of unstable weather, and it can be a bit disconcerting when one is not a native. It scared the hell out of me!!!! Has anyone ever experienced a tornado? Describe?
I have. It wasn't fun. It went right over the house. Luckily, it didn't touch down.
I haven't, but we had what you had over last summer - flash flood watches nearly every day from May to July or August; a fair few tornado watches, some warnings, and sometime in late may, we had some tornados touch down pretty near us. It tore up Windsor pretty bad, which isn't too far from where I live, and one hit pretty near one of our high schools.
Wow, it was scary though - so many weather alerts, so much severe weather ... Scared the heck out of all of us, because I've never seen so much severe weather in CO in my life. Agh!
Alison
I'd have to second that. I don't recall ever seeing such a super cell as I did yesterday. It measured about twenty five miles long, and thirty five miles wide.
I never been in a tornado before, but those warnings are scary enough especially mixed in with a hurricane.
Never been in one...but we get lots of warnings. They raise concern but I kind of think they're interesting.
Then again, I'm wierd.
I was raised in Iowa, which is considered part of tornado alley. We had two come over my house when I was about seven. It had started as one big storm, which shot off two separate tornados. Thankfuly they didn't touch down. A tornado also came over our campus when I was in college. that was pretty scary, too. A lot of trees and one of the buildings on campus was damaged, but not the one where I was at the time. People arent' exaggerating when they say that a tornado sounds like a freight train. It really does. And you can feel the air pressure change as it hits, or at least I could. It made my ears go crazy.
Even though I've been through those two, I'm not really scared when the warning sirens go off. Like Margorp, I get kind of jazzed by severe weather. I love a good storm. Seeing the damage afterwards is a sobering experience, though.
We don't have warning sirens in this bloody town.
a lot of people i talk too are from the tornado parts of america, some of there power has even gone out now
*shutter*
No warning sirens? Um, is that even legal? I thought every town/city was required to have warning sirens. Hmmmm. Not good at all.
I must be weird to, cause I love a good storm. We had the sirens go off at least 3 times this summer and one tornado was about 7 miles away. I love to watch the lightning at night.