Current Events > Are you afraid of tornadoes?

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I'm terrified of them. I have a mini panic attack when a warning or watch is active in my area.
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I wanted to be a tornado when I grew up during preschool
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7X3fyId2U0
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Absolutely. I use to be like you TC when I was a kid. But now I reserve the terror for when one is actually at my doorstep. Which so far hasn't happened. Although I was close enough to hear one, the stories about them sounding like trains are true. That one ended up killing a few people down the road from where I was at
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I've been through enough of them that they no longer frighten me.
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I read the title as tomatoes ._.
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I live in the northern end of tornado alley and am not afraid of them. If they come, they come.
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No tornadoes where I live. Well, a few happen per year, but nowhere near me.
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I live in tornado alley. They're not super common, but they're common enough that I don't pay them a whole lot of attention.
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They are up there in my top five.
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Nah. Might as well worry about being struck by lightning.
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No. I'm from Iowa. We go outside to see if we can see them.

They're my number one fear. Lived in southern Ohio most of my life, had a couple touch down and do structural damage within a few miles of my house, but have never actually seen one (though I have seen the storm cells that contained them).

Apart from them being the near-literal fingers of a wrathful God and worthy of fear and respect, I think my fear stems from a touch of childhood scarring. We lived in a mobile home while my parents were saving money and building our permanent residence over the span of about 7-8 years, so that's one thing. Plus for a few years, our local news station had these super-creepy weather adds involving a tornado ripping through the screen and coming at the viewer. Commercial couldn't have been more than five seconds long, but it freaked the shit out of me every time it happened, and I was nervous as hell every time whatever show I was watching on that network would cut to a commercial break.

And there was also my fundamental misunderstanding of the 'Watch' and 'Warning' system. At the time I thought a 'watch' meant that someone was literally watching a tornado tear through the sky, and a 'warning' pretty much meant that one was coming directly to your house to kill you. Naturally you can imagine the scene I made the very first time I saw a 'watch' change to a 'warning' on the tv screen.
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BudDupree48 posted...

I wanted to be a tornado when I grew up during preschool

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SrRd_RacinG posted...

BudDupree48 posted...

I wanted to be a tornado when I grew up during preschool

Deep thoughts with BudDupree48...every Saturday afternoon on the Think Network.

Had a piece of paper saying it and everything
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Are you afraid of tomatoes?
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IHeartRadiation posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7X3fyId2U0

this was a great watch, luckily it didnt hit any high population areas, found it interesting how everyone was trying to get out of OKC clogging the freeways and if the tornado actually hit there would have been mass casualties because of everyone leaving
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warning sirens are scary as shit
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Kinda. April 2011, the state got massacred by them. Nit people get so over-proactive about them.that it's dengerously desensitizing.
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I have an itrational fear of tornadoes. Even the water spouts in Windwaker caused me to tense up in fear to the point where I couldn't even play it.
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Fuck yea, i freak out if there's even a lame tornado watch around here. I've never seen one personally, but i probably think i'll faint if i ever saw one irl lol
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If one was barreling directly overhead, yeah. One's mortality becomes readily apparent when a colossal tower of wind and debris is staring you in the face.
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For all the worriers itt: if you have a concrete basement, you can survive a tornado.
Source: personal experience.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ZZFKjjoL0

the sirens are more ominous than the tornadoes themselves

dark fucking skies, fast moving clouds, then some creepy ass sirens echo across entire counties
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Remember the scene in The Day After Tomorrow where 5 EF-5 tornados destroyed Los Angeles? Horrifying.
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meestermj posted...

For all the worriers itt: if you have a concrete basement, you can survive a tornado.
Source: personal experience.

The irony is that when I lived in Ohio, I did have a perfectly competent basement. Now that I live in Florida, I don't - if a tornado comes, my best chance is to drag my mattress to the tub and throw it on top of me. And yet my fear has diminished quite a bit - can't tell you the last time I had a tornado nightmare (though watching that vid will probably give me one tonight, lol).

I think the thing that's always shivered me about them is that they can strike in the middle of the night, with little to no warning. In Ohio I lived out in the country, far out of earshot of any sirens, whereas now I live in more suburban area. There's something about living mostly alone out in the dark wilderness that exponentially compounds the fear when bad weather rolls through.
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If I see one, yes.
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They don't happen where I live.
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