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[ladysarahii]

I AGAIN didn't sleep very much last night. We had some friends over to celebrate a birthday, and after they left I turned on the Weather Channel to see what on earth was going on, because they kept promising huge thunderstorms, my head would start to hurt, and then there wouldn't be anything. So I had a headache and I wanted to see if the storm

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[demented2468]

I usually don't trust the weather channel or the news on the weather. They are wrong more times then they are right. Still that would be really freaky

[ladysarahii]

I think I figured out what happened; there was a funnel cloud spotted in the northern part of the county, but since the Weather Channel is on a national feed it didn't realize it had no chance of hitting where I am, so it only picked up that there was a funnel cloud in my county.

Apparently it didn't last long, either; since we're on a higher elevation it couldn't touch the ground. The one south of us, however, evidently barreled right through.

[amielou31]

From our lovely vantage point in Tornado Alley, I can tell you, always trust your local news on these things. National feeds tell you the region or county. Local news usually has spotters that are telling them exactly where in the county--a college boyfriend of mine was a spotter for awhile and my cousin's kid is starting that job this year--after impatiently waiting to turn 18 and be allowed. While they can't tell tomorrow's temperatures with any accuracy, they are pretty good at spotting the location of funnels and tornadoes.

I am probably not sufficiently afraid of tornadoes having spent too much of life listening to warnings for storms that don't hit where I am. But they are very scary. The worst incident here in recent memory being the Boy Scout Camp in western Iowa that was hit two years ago in June.

[ladysarahii]

Oh, I heard about that camp.

See, living in tornado alley is what caused the fear of them for me. I can't tell you how many springs we spent in the basement. :P Now that I'm not there anymore, I'd think I'd have gotten over my fear by now, but I guess not. Hee.