Tornado Season

[SageMother]

Well isn't this eerie? I just heard that your area is under a tornado watch or warning now... I hope you're staying safe, SageMother.

LOL

The first thing that happens is I turn on the family room lights, because it gets as dark as dusk. Every time the weather turns, noon goes to just about night. Then I look outside at the sky to see how green those clouds might be, or black depending on the amount of rain that has or hasn't fallen.

By the time the weather service comes on and the sirens are blaring, I plotted my course to the basement. Sometimes, I am actually working on the computer in the basement before the sirens get going!

 

[katharina]

By the time the weather service comes on and the sirens are blaring, I plotted my course to the basement. Sometimes, I am actually working on the computer in the basement before the sirens get going!

Hey now that's what I call being prepared... a computer in the basement! Well, if you keep your electricity, that is! Ah... laptop with charged batteries?

 

[Twiceshy]

Have you ever sat through one of those afternoons where the sirens go off about 9 times in a 45 minute period?

I can't tell if one of them is the all clear, if they are doing warnings then all clears several times an hour, if they are setting off the siren because there's actually a funnel overhead?

After a while it starts losing its impact!

Ever had an afternoon like that?

 

[katharina]

Have you ever sat through one of those afternoons where the sirens go off about 9 times in a 45 minute period?

I can't tell if one of them is the all clear, if they are doing warnings then all clears several times an hour, if they are setting off the siren because there's actually a funnel overhead?

I'm not in an area that has the sirens... we get them here and get numerous warnings during the hot months, but I need to get warnings from the weather station or my emergency email.

That would be soooo unnerving!

 

[heretoday]

I'm not sure who was playing the baseball game in the midwest my husband was watching this weekend. The cameras were taking picture of a giant funnel almost reached down to the ground. Then they resumed the game and never said another thing about it, so it must not have touched down.

 

[katharina]

The cameras were taking picture of a giant funnel almost reached down to the ground. Then they resumed the game and never said another thing about it, so it must not have touched down.

How strange! That's how used to it they are, I guess. Did anyone bother getting up to head for cover or just stay there and wait for it to pass?

 

[SageMother]

How strange! That's how used to it they are, I guess. Did anyone bother getting up to head for cover or just stay there and wait for it to pass?

Saturday or Sunday, I think, the Rockies played and the sirens were going off. There was a funnel over downtown, so the storm was within a quick walk from my house.

Usually they empty the stands into the walkways, since they are surrounded by cement.

That was another "midnight at noon" day.

 

[katharina]

Saturday or Sunday, I think, the Rockies played and the sirens were going off. There was a funnel over downtown, so the storm was within a quick walk from my house.

My goodness! Did your home suffer any damage from that storm or any
of the storms around there recently?

 

[Twiceshy]

My goodness! Did your home suffer any damage from that storm or any
of the storms around there recently?

I heard there were a few pebbles of hail, near the game, but the bulk of the storm was actually north.

Since funnels usually appear at the edges of the storms, other areas got the golf ball sized hail.

 

[katharina]

Since funnels usually appear at the edges of the storms, other areas got the golf ball sized hail.

Ouch for any vehicles that are outside when golf ball sized hail is falling! I've seen hail in my lifetime but never that big.