Someone Make the Writers of Desperate Housewives watch Twister! (Eldora: house, tornado)

[WoodwardGirl]

The "tornado comes to Wisteria Lane" episode of Desperate Housewives tonight was too funny for those of us who live in places where we actually have tornadoes... I know it's too much to hope that the writers of the show would do any research but Twister with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton is pretty darned good... I mean, I've not seen any flying cows but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

They wrote a hurricane, not a tornado. A Tornado Watch means "go ahead and do whatever you're doing, but keep the radio on," not "A tornado will be here at 2:00 p.m, so rearrange your DayTimer." And a tornado is not heralded by gradually increasing winds... it is usually very calm. And usually hot and sticky and irritable. And often a funny color of green.

Pathetic. I mean, it's a big country, but c'mon... "I don't have any idea what the midwest is like so I'll just make it up out of whole cloth... no one will notice!"

[metro223]

Haha this just makes me glad i quit watching that show. :P

Speaking of twister, you can go see the house that the F5 misses in the end, its just east of Eldora and still has some damage from when they made the movie. (This is the scene where the movie ends and the camera gives an ariel view of Hardin County)

...random fact about iowa and twister.