Tornadoes are one of those acts of nature that really unnerve me. They can strike with little notice or during the night when it’s hard to warn people and cut a devastating path of destruction indiscriminately. The news breaking as I write this is of another severe outbreak of torndadoes, one of which destroyed an entire town and another which flattened a junior/senior high school, not to mention all the deaths, injuries and damages it caused. The article on msnbc.com said that for only the second time, the Weather Channel issued a TORCON warning of 10 as multiple tornado-producing super-cells moved across northern Kentucky — meaning forecasters at the channel believed there was a 100 percent chance of a tornado within 50 miles. Uh, okay. Our area already had a tornado watch two days ago. A tornado watch … in February?? I was so jittery the other day I looked up the statistics of being killed by a tornado in your lifetime. I read one in 60,000. I’d feel better if it were like one in 100 million. (BTW my wariness of natural disasters is why I could never live on the coast (hurricanes) or in earthquake-prone areas like California.)
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Too much info. Stop looking on the computer all the time and keep your head in the sand like the rest of us chickens. I’m just saying….
Very scary Cari :O