[bloodrayne]

Oh, I believe you...I watched a tornado from my front porch when I was 10 (I have ALWAYS lived in this area, except for 1 year in Alabama when I was 12...talk about BORING weather)...It was an awesome sight...And, of course I got yelled at to get my ass in the house...lol


People here aren't really that intimidated by the tornadoes, I guess because we grow up expecting them...and...We all have basements...hahaha

They don't really cause a LOT of damage here (which is really strange), they only seem to touch down long enough for us to watch them and appreciate their beauty...They usually only mess up a few things, not really much worse than our regular storms, which we've lost a few trees to over the years...Lost an apple tree 6 years ago, and 2 days ago had to remove part of a tree from the backyard before we could mow, but that's pretty common when spring/summer comes

Our old air-raid sirens are used as 'storm-warning' sirens now...You can hear them all over the city, and they go off all the time...I still remember the first time Dustin heard it...It was funny, he said, "What the fuck is THAT?!"...:D...It actually really adds to the sounds of the storms...Yeah, I love it here