Tornado Watch

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

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

Comments

[ron_newman]

I'm from Ohio, and I recall watch meaning "don't do anything special", while warning meant "go to the basement".

[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.

[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...)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

In Cleveland, we we only went to the basement once in my childhood. The watches usually ended up being EPIC thunder and lightning storms that made we kids dance around, and made our grandma get on the floor and pray to sweet Jesus.

[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.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I lived in Ohio from birth to age 12, and the suburbs of Rochester NY from 13 to adulthood. So both were influential.

[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.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Same here in Louisiana, the few times tornadoes were an actual threat (usually just after a hurricane).

[tater1112.livejournal.com]

At our house a watch meant "put your shoes on" because the basement was unfinished and fairly dirty. :)

[notpiecebypiece.livejournal.com]

I'm from Indiana, and that's how it was for me.