I am. It's such an adrenaline rush to watch those storms roll towards you on the prarie. Then the tornado warrings goes off. There is one 8 miles north of you. One was spoted 2 miles south west of you. Then the local law enforcement spots a monster 20 miles west of you. Your thinking that this will be your last day on Earth. It's all good though, in a little over an hour you see a rainbow that touches from ground to ground.
2007-02-19 14:23:09 · 7 answers · asked by MOLLY 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
I am, I love it when a great storms come and we are all safe and snug in our house. I am in Memphis, Tn so not many tornados touch down here because of the bluffs on the Mississippi River. But I do feel for the ones who get hit year after year.
2007-02-19 15:27:46 · answer #1 · answered by doris_38133 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I thought I was the only one (besides my daughter) that felt like that! Most people dread stormy weather. I love it!!!! I lived in 'Tornado Alley' for most of my life. My dad would take me out to the edge of town and we would watch and wait for them! Thank you for bringing that memory back to me! I have since moved and they are not quite as exciting as they are in Oklahoma, but there are still some fair storms here. I may have to go visit my kids that live in southwest Oklahoma in a couple of months just for that purpose (of course, seeing them will be an added bonus! lol) Anyway, great question and beautiful picture you painted with words, thanks! Have a great storm season!
2007-02-19 22:38:06 · answer #2 · answered by wannaknow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean next month?? I live in Topeka, KS, tornado alley extrodinaire and we are to have possibly severe storms on Thursday. Of course there are records of tornados in every month of the year in Kansas so it won't come as a surprise. I've lived around here all of my life minus a couple of short stints when my hubby was in the military and I really do get a buzz from some of the storms. I love to go sit on the ridge on the north side of the Kansas River Valley and watch the lightening show and it is always spectacular up there as you can see a long long ways. I lived up on NW 52nd St for a year of so where I love to storm watch but when you are just watching, you can pull out when the going gets tough but when we lived there we were at the mercy of every storm that came up the valley and we were having insurance claims all the time. We lost every window on the north side to hail once and that was one not easily forgotten. One of the funniest storms went across the pasture in front of my daughter's farm house in the country near Pawnee City, NE. She was talking to me on the phone and this tornado came bumping across the pasture and hit a new farm pond that had just been dug so it picked up all that loose dirt and changed from a very light colored funnel to a pitch black one in seconds. My daughter sees it while we're talking and starts throwing her dogs and cats down the basement steps and in the uproar that was she dropped her cell phone and disconnected from me, I think the phone service is gone because the house was hit. It did take a couple of trees from the front yard but the house is a stone house over a hundred years old and isn't going anywhere but I don't know that. I'm sitting in Topeka, Ks so I call the weather service and report a tornado on the ground approaching the Kansas border at Summerfield, KS. The dispatcher asks if I am there and am I in a safe positoin and I have to explain how I knew what was going on over an hour and a half drive away from me. However, she did give the warning electronically and the sheriff went out and saw the backside of it just as it went over the Kansas line and set off the warning whistles for the whole county. Then I talk to my friend on her cell phone who was at the races in Jackson county just south of Holton. I was tracking what I thought the path would be if it went the angle it had on the farm and decided that it was going to hit the race track. When I told her what was coming they looked back to the north and could see the characteristic green cloud when the storm comes out of the north so they ran and jumped in their van and took off to the east and watched it go across the race track where it knocked over some vans and buses. Then I called the Jackson county sheriff dept and told them the track it was taking across his county into Shawnee county where I live so he blew the whistles up there. I talked to dispatch again and told them I was the lady tracking the tornado across country and that it was into Shawnee county moving towards Topeka. Since I was not in sight of the funnel and it was not showing on Topeka radar they didn't blow the whistles. I was living in the Pines apartments on Gage adjoining the highway patrol office to the north. They had, notice I said had a communication tower there that supplied all the communications for local, county and state law enforcement. It was the tallest tower in the state and the storm dropped it down on the apartment building I was living in, tracking this storm. Damage was much worse at the other end from me but the whole building and tower had to be torn down and rebuilt. No one in my building or the whole city but me knew this awful strong cell was coming and still I got caught with my pants down. I was on my hands and knees crawling under the picnic table on my patio trying to get my cat inside. When the crashing and glass breaking started the cat took off into the apartment and beat me inside. We sat in the bathtub until it was over and came out to meet a fireman saying to evacuate the building so I'm carrying my animals out and throwing them in my car and on the second trip there is a police officer saying to go back into your apartment as there are hi voltage wires laying across the cars in the parking lot. I went and got the first trip cats out of my car and put them back in the apartment and there we sat. I saved everyone from the tornado except myself. LOL Now that was a bit beyond liking a thunderstorm. I could tell you good tornado stories all night but the bed is beckoning. Do you think we might be kindred spirits?
2007-02-20 00:51:26 · answer #3 · answered by moonrose777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont see too many this way but them are a trip man love the lightining, Monsoonseason soon for PHX miss them dont miss PHX at all it really sucks there ,dumb asses all over but the monsoons were killer
2007-02-22 10:13:05 · answer #4 · answered by ashkicker420 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am, I love it I'm becoming a storm chaser this year
2007-02-19 23:10:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh, dude, you don't live in California, do you. It's already here.
2007-02-19 22:25:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cant wait either!
2007-02-19 23:05:24 · answer #7 · answered by JJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋