Unplanned Storm Spotting
In the early afternoon today I was feeling rather restless. I grabbed my netbook, my phone and a pair of headphones, and decided to head to a local coffee shop to listen to an audio-book and surf the net. By the time I got to the coffee shop I decided I wanted a bit of nature instead, so I got my coffee and went to River Park in Brooklyn Park.
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Good information.
I was on 694, driving from SR Harris to the Columbia Heights area, when the sirens kicked in. I turned on the weather but honestly didn't know what to do other than look for funnel clouds as I drove. (They kept saying "go to your basement" which is difficult when you're on a freeway!) I'm glad I didn't see any, but I know one touched down at 94 & Dowling, which was a whopping 2 miles from my destination. I think I was lucky.
I am still not quite used to tornadoes. Other weather disasters, yes, but not those.
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I'm not sure there is any getting used to natural disasters on any scale. The thing that I think makes tornadoes most scary is that most people expect life to just go on, even with a tornado near by.
A few years ago I remember an incident where I told a customer I had to hang up because the area my work is in was under a tornado warning. My boss didn't say anything, but the look on her face made it clear she was unhappy with me.
If we were being told to evacuate due to a hurricane, if flood water were pouring into our parking lot, or if an Earth quake had just happened, she wouldn't have thought twice.
Our pears pressure us to treat tornadoes as a non-threat, where as we all know how serious a danger they are. The combination makes it very hard for us to know how to react to tornadoes.
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