We had some wicked thunderstorms yesterday. My sister was dropping her son off around 2pm and the sky was ominous. Right before she pulled up the kids and I were outside and Jake asked the title question. I smiled and winked and said that it looks like a tornado. I said it in such a way that it sounded like I was kidding. My sister arrives and said that she swears she just saw a funnel cloud. I poo-poo'd the notion took my nephew and grabbed the kids we went inside. Then I we did our storm prep. It was a funnel cloud but I didn't want everyone panicking because I needed the kids to listen to and follow my instructions. I called my sister on the road and told her the weather situation. Just as I called, the sirens went off. She asked if those sirens mean anything besides what she thinks they mean, I said no. They mean tornado. I hung up with her and took cover with the three kids.
All is well but my computer went wonky and didn't get better until Dean fixed it last night. It was an interesting day.
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We did cover the scenario in my emergency preparedness course. The instructor said "Just because we've never had one doesn't mean we never will."
There's still an open invitation out there for you listeners...yes, even Kevin D. is invited.
I used to live in the Midwest, near Chicago as a kid. What I remember about that kind of weather was the strange stillness in the air accompanied by a sickly green sky. It still creeps me out to this day.
Being kids, we thought that sitting in the cellar waiting for the roof to get torn off made for a wonderful evening.
We got a tornado, without funnel cloud, here last year. Ripped down a 30ft tree in the neighbor's yard, destroyed a good part of the Italian side of Aviano, and our HAWC (which is still not opened yet). Oh, good times, really. I was driving in it, as AFN doesn't come in where we live - no weather warning until the siren on base went off and "This is the Command Post" - "Seek Immediate Shelter" ... With an 8 year-old, 5 year-old and 3 year-old in tow and hubby deployed. Oh the joys of military life.
Seriously though, the sky looks really cool here. Hubby and I both know it as Tornado Weather but there's next to nothing for tornados in Europe so we get the cool sky colors wihtout the violent storms (minus the rain).