[identity profile] plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] davis_square
Hey gang!

Our county is under tornado watch until 8:00 PM.

I got caught in the rain with no umbrella this morning. Gonna happen again, maybe.


UPDATE: Tornado video from Springfield

Date: 2011-06-01 10:28 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
I'm from Ohio, and I recall watch meaning "don't do anything special", while warning meant "go to the basement".

Date: 2011-06-01 10:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enhf94.livejournal.com
Since I'm the only person in Boston in the basement right now, I wonder if you're right. But tornadoes can form in seconds, just as fast as the water swirling in your sink.

Date: 2011-06-01 10:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rufinia.livejournal.com
I'm also from the Midwest, and we usually didn't bother with the basement until a warning was issued, and mostly not even then (but our basement wasn't finished, so...)

Date: 2011-06-02 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
You're from ... Cleveland? I never knew that. Somehow had you associated with upstate New York. I lived in Akron from 3rd to 5th grade, Columbus thereafter (and the rest of my family is still there). Tornado warnings were a regular feature of a Columbus summer.

Date: 2011-06-02 12:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] josephineave.livejournal.com
Yep, a watch is pretty much business as usual. I grew up in Arkansas and we didn't have basements. We spent our warning time in the central hallway under a mattress.

Date: 2011-06-02 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] closetalker11.livejournal.com
Same here in Louisiana, the few times tornadoes were an actual threat (usually just after a hurricane).

Date: 2011-06-01 11:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tater1112.livejournal.com
At our house a watch meant "put your shoes on" because the basement was unfinished and fairly dirty. :)

Date: 2011-06-01 11:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notpiecebypiece.livejournal.com
I'm from Indiana, and that's how it was for me.

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