WHEEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo

[kungfuwaynewho]

My sister and I were driving to work when the tornado sirens went off.  Like all good Kansans, instead of saying, "We must be under a tornado warning!  We should seek shelter!" we said, "Whee the sirens this'll be a really good storm!"  Then we went to Big Lots as planned.  She started work at noon, I didn't start till 12:30, so I sat upstairs in the break room and ate my lunch.  Unbeknownst to me, everyone else was huddled against the back wall, staff and patrons alike.  My sister was finally like, should we get Shannon?  She's just, like, eating cereal upstairs next to a whole bunch of windows?  But by then we got the all-clear.

This also reminds me of the time the sirens went off a few years ago and my family all turned to look at each other and said, no, we will finish watching Rio Bravo and then if they're still going off, then we'll go down to the basement.

(Lest you think I'm too flippant, because of our local geography most storm systems tend to split to the west of us and head either north or south.  We do always make sure we unplug our computers, though, because we've been hit by lightning three times, and replacing all our electronics is a pain.)

Now, of course, we have bright sunny blue skies outside.  Oh, midwest, you're the best.

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[nhpw.livejournal.com]

My rant is about our local news, which treats every single individual storm cell as a possible source of doom.

I love when the weather people get a new toy. Remember a couple of years ago when the whole red-and-green thing was new? Oh, how cute were they with that! Like a bunch of little kids!

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the red-and-green thing is! Or maybe I do and I've repressed it to save my sanity.

[nhpw.livejournal.com]

It's this thing where they turn the cold air mass green and the warm air mass red and the closer those are together the more likely there is to be a tornado. Or something.