IU Bloomington: general questions (school, university, tornado)

[musician2012]

I'm moving to Indiana to go to grad school, DMA in music. I'm curious to know what natural disasters occur there, especially around the university. Floods? Tornados? What's it like in the winter?

TIA

[domergurl]

You'll get more torando watches & warnings than actual tornados. You'll get some flooding, rrah could probably be a better resource in that department. I found winters at IU more icy than snowy, which really stinks when trying to get one's car up or down a hill! It's typical midwest overall .. not sure where you are coming from.

[musician2012]

Thank you for your response. I'm from Tulsa, so it's probably not much worse than that.

I did a search on Bloominging, IU, etc., and from what I gather it's really beautiful there. I'm looking forward to the move.

[Griffeycom]

If you're going to be around campus, you won't experience much flooding, this year was the first year since I remember that we had significant flooding on campus. Tornado's and bad storms hit the area at times, but again I don't remember a tornado really hitting Bloomington. And winters are not very bad, the road crews here usually put out Salt mixes before expected snow/icy conditions hit and if we were to get some snow they usually do a good job of getting it plowed in a reasonable amount of time in the city.

[domergurl]

Yea, if you're coming from Tulsa, you won't be in for too much of a shock, weatherwise.

[Nafster]

Since Bloomington's in the very lower Midwest, the winters are milder when compared to cities a few hundred miles north.

However, we get snow, lots of ice, and plenty of freezing temperatures (mostly from the beginning of January to the end of February).

Come March though, Spring usually is in full effect, and you can start having temperatures in the 70s by the first week of April.