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I feel for you guys. I remember living in Tornado alley in Texas.
For me personally I also have a problem sleeping when its hurricanes that are the concern here in Florida. Yes they can track them more easily but I still stay up and watch when one is around. Like Hurricane Charley in 2004, they can take a turn at the last moment and change their direction.
We also from time to time get tornados and I have stay up and watch those as well but thankfully not often.
Waiting for the weather. My wife is exhausted after two tough work days so I told her to crash and I'll watch for tornadoes, etc. Spending my night in the recliner. Tornadoes south of us already, our turn comes later.
Check out central IA tonight. This is getting old...
Totally understand, got woke up at 1 am last night with the sirens going off. No tornadoes but 70 mph winds. Really nasty night last night and it looks like we are going to have worse weather tonight Tek Freek.
Totally understand, got woke up at 1 am last night with the sirens going off. No tornadoes but 70 mph winds. Really nasty night last night and it looks like we are going to have worse weather tonight Tek Freek.
You should be glad to have the sirens. After a tornado struck here in Florida there was MUCH talk of installing them. I think they are def. better then nothing.
There have been times that I have taken my laptop into my bedroom, left it running on my bedside table. I use a desktop program from The Weather Channel, if bad weather is coming to my zip code, it kicks up a bunch of racket.
I am, there are not too many areas in Nebraska without sirens. I have always been suprised there aren't more sirens in Florida, it does have the next highest number of tornadoes after the "alley" states.
I am, there are not too many areas in Nebraska without sirens. I have always been suprised there aren't more sirens in Florida, it does have the next highest number of tornadoes after the "alley" states.
The sirens weren't originally installed for Tornado's. They were installed during the Cuban Missile Crises to warn of incoming. The minimum range on what Cuba had was too far to shoot at Florida, they were targeting further north.
When the Crises went away, they started using them for Warning of other sorts, such as Tornado's.
I agree, they need to beef up that system. They also need to change the pitch or sound from one towner to another. When I was down in Texas, I lived where I could hear about 4 different sirens and couldn't tell which one was going off.
I feel safer than living in California with Earthquakes without prior warning and flash fires.
Yeah me too and I lived through both the Whittier and Northridge one. I can't ever live around tornados. But in the last month, there were several around the Charlotte area, so much that the kids were actually in lock down. That was scary, and we don't have a basement!
You have my sympathy! My son and I rode out a tornado in Atlanta (yes, Atlanta) in 1996 and it was NO fun.
Stay safe .....
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