Just sat through a tornado warning (Indiana)

[Ariana Celeste]

I'm not sure if one touched down or not, my neighbors kept the volume on the tv down because I was stressing out pretty bad. But, it's out of Hendricks and Marion counties now, and just thunderstorms are left. Beautiful lightning outside, but damned if I wasn't shaking.
This was only my 3rd tornado warning. My first, my man was with me and it wasn't that bad, pretty window but not so much lightning and just wasn't that scary. The second time, I was playing loud music and so didn't even know about it until hours later because my roommates didn't bother telling me. They've lived here all their lives so I guess it wasn't a big deal.
This time I was sitting here surfing DU, and noticed my puppy's ears were all perked up. So I turned my music off, and sure enough, tornado siren was going off. Once the thunder started getting really loud, my poor puppy got scared and peed all over the floor. We sat through the rest of the warning in my neighbor's apt... I was far to freaked out to sit by myself.

Guess I'm just going to have to have a glass of White Zinfandel, smoke a cigarette, and calm the fuck down.


On edit: I come from WA state where the worst you can expect is a small scale earthquake and occasional flooding. This whole tornado thing is new to me.

:scared:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. You've earned that glass of wine

Are you near Bloomie or Indy? Salin just posted that she was sitting out a tornado warning in another thread.

[Ariana Celeste]

2. I'm in Plainfield,

just SW of Indianapolis. Some of the really bad weather came right through here.

[TlalocW]

3. Went through dozens of them being from Kansas

The secret is to run fast enough to penetrate the outer shell of the tornado to get into its center where it's calm and then move along with it staying in the center until it fizzles out.

Okay, not really. My dad had been through so many by the time I was born that he never bothered getting out of bed and going over to the neighbors' or Grandma's to get in the basement. I guess he was right - a tornado never hit us, and he was well-rested.

TlalocW

[Ariana Celeste]

4. Oh, man

I am too much of a worrier to be calm through bad weather. I just couldn't imagine someone not being worried! But then again, my man never worries about it either.

[Roland99]

5. Hmmmmm

http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KIND/0507220340.wfus53.html

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 1115 PM EST

* AT 1037 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
GREENFIELD...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING EAST
AT 35 MPH.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST FRIDAY
MORNING FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA.

[Ariana Celeste]

6. Yup.

It's been moving pretty quickly. I sure hope nothing touches down. Everything is fairly calm in Hendricks now, just some thunder and rain, a little bit of lightning. Yeesh this stuff scares the shit out of me.

[bloom]

7. I'm just south of you a little ways

I pulled up the map when you posted - we were just starting to get the storm then.

Then the lights flickered and I lost my connection.

We're still getting a storm.

It doesn't seem too bad.

[Ariana Celeste]

8. Supposed to be thunderstorms for the next couple of hours

at least. The area of the storm that had a chance of producing a tornado has been heading SE.

it probably isn't that bad, but it sure is freaky to me.

[bloom]

12. The trouble with warnings

You have to take them seriously - but to me - it's mostly a matter of knowing at what point you need to duck and cover - by reading the wind/etc. yourself.

For instance. If the trees are bending a good ways over - it's time.

If it turns white outside - it might be past time.


This has been a quiet year. We usually get more storms in the spring.

[WCGreen]

9. Here in Cleveland we get a mess of warnings each year....

But by the time they hit the city, they seem to fizzle out...

But I have been out in the surrounding country, where else would suburban kids go in the 70's but out in the country to smoke pot and drink beer,..

Now remember, this was back before they had radar on thirty seven channels all the time. We just had to take the word of the spotters who called in to say, hey there's a tornado out there in Lorain County....

So we got caught up in what we later learned was a tornado, real close but not right on top of us..

We were swimming at a quarry, all jaked up on 3.2 beer and cheap Mexican pot when Terry McLaren jumps up on top of a rock, with all this lightning coming down on us like heaven itself had come loose, Well there's Terry, arms outstretched like Jesus on the cross yelling our FUCK FUCK FUCK....

We could barely hear him for the roar of the wind as the small trees clinging to the cracks in the solid rock of the abandon quarry were bouncing of the ground....

And the rest of us just huddled back behind a few huge rocks, hoping that none of the others would see how scared shitless we all were....

An there was Terry, out on the rock over looking the quarry.....

[Ariana Celeste]

10. Sounds scary

I bet it's one of those things that's cool to think back on, though! I love storms, don't get me wrong- it's the siren that really gets to me!

[WCGreen]

13. No sirens. Just out of the blue....

I actually ran into Terry a few years back. He is a union official and I was all decked out in my running for office charcoal suit.

We joked a bit and I told him I had this image of him outlined gainst a dark gray sky, raging against god and man and he turned to me and said he didn't remember that at all......

Oh well....

I do remember, cause I have the best memory of all my friends. They call me and ask if this or that happened, Or who was at this party.....

It's a gift......

Not worth much, but at least I am the defacto historian of Westlake Ohio's stoners in the mid to late 70's

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. I was raised in rural Indiana

That was a regular summertime routine for me for seventeen years. One time a tornado went directly over our house (my sister foolishly stood at the door and watched it).

Now I live in Texas, in tornado alley. The fun never ends.

[GOPFighter]

14. I grew up in N. Indiana

Lots of tornado warnings. We got to the point where we didn't take them seriously, which is not too smart. One time a small tornado crossed right in front of my car, uprooting a tree which came down on the road. I happened so fast I didn't even have a chance to pee my pants.