Tornadoes

Well where I live in the good old sunshine state we have had several hurricanes and tornados in the last 3 years..But like most say we all stay home and prepared while the rest of the state run wild and crazy... we've had harsh nasty ones which have destroyed a lot of people's homes and towns and there has also been very minimal ones that haven't done anything at all... I guess you just never know... while we've been safe and sound it may come a day when we're not so much so as for now we are very thankful for things being as well off as it has been for us and hope for the best for everybody around us! God bless all! Believe in the power of positivity!

 

I live in Pennsylvania so we get a combination of weather. This year it was flooding. We lost most of our road and were stranded for 4 days. No power no phone no internet. Ahhh I was losing my mind. Lol. When it snows I'm nice enough to go out and lock the front hubs in on my truck so my wife can go to work.
Its 48 and raining. Yep raining still.

I'm in the poconos. I feel your pain.

 

Sudbury, Ontario. Pretty extreme temperature fluctuations, from -40F to +100F but other than that one of the lowest risks of extreme weather on the continent... Apparently there was a tornado once in the 1970s.

 

Here in Nebraska we take tornadoes with a grain of salt. When we hear sirens it means take your horses in and enjoy a snack on the porch. Right now I’m in good old Nashville and they were nice enough to make us feel at home with some sirens. How do people react to bad weather in your area?

I had a dream last night that me and the fam were driving on a southeast Nebraska highway I know very well and like 8 tornadoes crossed the highway in front of us as we were driving in about a 5 mile stretch...

 

I always hated tornadoes, remembering back as a small child there was a tornado watch, probably one of the most scariest storms at the time, but in this day probably not. I remember the sky turning a grayish green color, and the sirens going off for a good while. That’s when we started freaking out, so my mom, little brother and I were in the bathroom tub where there’s no windows. We were probably sitting in there for nothing, the storm never even hit us, the tornado was more than eight miles away, and it was a small one. Tornados definitely don’t mean sitting out on your porch, but instead grab everything you can and bunker down in your best bathtub. We haven’t had a tornado watch or warning for the past five years now, but we have definitely been hit by some very dangerous storms that I remember very fondly.

 

In Australia we just get extreme heat and then quite severe thunderstorms in the afternoon, the lightning comes very close! I went to New Zealand once and I woke to the sound of sirens so my whole family had no idea what to do, one of the people in the next room rang reception and they just said "Oh that's normal its just an indicator for volunteer firemen around town to come to a car accident or something." We thought we were gonna die by tsunami.

 

In Australia we just get extreme heat and then quite severe thunderstorms in the afternoon, the lightning comes very close! I went to New Zealand once and I woke to the sound of sirens so my whole family had no idea what to do, one of the people in the next room rang reception and they just said "Oh that's normal its just an indicator for volunteer firemen around town to come to a car accident or something." We thought we were gonna die by tsunami.

Your lucky. Back home at the sunny coast we used to get floods every year and bushfires every couple of years. I remember one time we didnt get any big floods for a few yrs and some random guy from down sydney bought a few acres of land that was used for cattle and decided to build a house it. He wouldnt listen when everyone told him ot was flood plains and is liable to flood. Sure enough the next yr we had a big one and washed him away. He didnt evrn build on stilts like 95% of the houses around him. his insurance wouldnt pay too because it was a known flood plain and he ended up going back to sydney.
Now I'm in tianjin and just have to deal with earthquakes and pollution.

 

At least here with hurricanes we have 5 long warning days of slow non-stop media hype and frenzy before nothing happens and it goes somewhere else..

 

At least here with hurricanes we have 5 long warning days of slow non-stop media hype and frenzy before nothing happens and it goes somewhere else..

I'll agree with that one. We were just talking to the kiddo about extreme weather a couple of days ago and said the exact same thing. With a hurricane, we get very early warnings... and ya know, we track such things ourselves as we've spent nearly our whole lives in Hurricane Alley. Who needs the media? Howdy neighbor!

 

At least here with hurricanes we have 5 long warning days of slow non-stop media hype and frenzy before nothing happens and it goes somewhere else..

That's the truth these days, the media creates more panic then anything else. I have been through a bunch of hurricanes living along the Gulf Coast for some 30 odd years. I only evacuated 3 times, all three times not by my own choice. With Ivan the better half she insisted we leave after getting information from the EOC where she worked but wasn't called in yet. The next year there was another storm that hit the area, and she insisted I take her daughter out of town. Then there was Issac in 2012 not much wind, but a bunch of rain. The next day the fireman that lived across from me told me there was a mandatory evacuation for the area due to a dam in MississippI threatening to collapse. So I go back to Pensacola, after an hour back home the power went out for about 6 hrs not related to the storm.

 

so basically any minimal change would cause a car crashed on Seattle? lol

welcome to NY lol, they have the street cleaners that all they do is move the snow out of the streets and bury your car in 10 inches of black snow, yes black (NY is dirty) our snow is only white until it hits the floor lol

Seattle is pretty much a traffic accident waiting to happen.

I lived in upstate NY for several years--Binghamton, on the Pennsylvania border. Thinking back on it, the most amazing thing was how little people panicked over the weather. Susquehanna burst its banks and flooded the shopping mall? People would pull on their boots to wade through the aisles of Walmart. Three feet of snow falling a day after it was 80? Put the snow plow attachment on the front of your truck and dig your way out if the 10,000 Broome County snow plows didn't beat you to it.

I don't think they ever cancelled classes at the University...EVER. I lived there the year Katrina hit New Orleans, and we got the aftermath of the storm for weeks, as waves of torrential rain and thunderstorms, heat and humidity made it impossible to breathe...and life went on. Even we you couldn't see the road because the rain bouncing back up met the curtain falling down, people slowed down and just drove more carefully, didn't freak out.

I love Seattle, but mad respect for how NY handles its weather

 

I'll agree with that one. We were just talking to the kiddo about extreme weather a couple of days ago and said the exact same thing. With a hurricane, we get very early warnings... and ya know, we track such things ourselves as we've spent nearly our whole lives in Hurricane Alley. Who needs the media? Howdy neighbor!

I'm in South Florida.. and spent a decade in news.. never, ever listen to local TV and radio forecasting.. they're only interested in ratings to sell advertising. They're practically already hyping the 2019 storm season

 

I'm in South Florida.. and spent a decade in news.. never, ever listen to local TV and radio forecasting.. they're only interested in ratings to sell advertising. They're practically already hyping the 2019 storm season

Nice to hear it straight from the horse's mouth. I'm even further south than you. Spent more than a decade in the scuba industry in Key Largo, so learned to be own forecaster around that time, lol.

 

I'm currently living in Oklahoma, THE place for massive killer tornadoes. Though given everyone is tired and dead inside bc college, I'm not sure if a lot of us take it very seriously.

 

Nice to hear it straight from the horse's mouth. I'm even further south than you. Spent more than a decade in the scuba industry in Key Largo, so learned to be own forecaster around that time, lol.

I was pretty much in that industry on and off for well over 20 years, actually more of commercial side of it and manufactures then teaching/divemastering.