Reply #29: I think I've gone the opposite direction [View All]

[Oak2004]

I've studied emergency management. I am a hard core weather geek. I'm fascinated, even as I am terrified, of the things -- I can't get enough tornado videos, etc. (at the same time I deliberately moved to a state with a very low incidence of them, and on the rare occasions there's a tornado warning, I don't hang around to watch the sky, I react like it was incoming artillery and take shelter in a matter of seconds). On one message board I frequent, I even use a tornado avatar.

It may be the other extreme, but it's ultimately the same thing: no one who has ever experienced the force of a major tornado can ever, ever, forget it.