Stormy Weather

[fflo]

Just came up from the basement, where C. & I were cowering until the tornado warning expired. In the old days a warning meant a tornado was spotted; from what little I caught on the TV before heading down below, it sounds as if now/here it means the conditions are right for one to be produced. What I know as a watch. The radio (in the basement) wasn't much use---no FM was talking about the weather, except one line from the middle-of-the-night guy at WEMU, and I could barely get AM stations. So few are really local, anyway, any more.

It's still pretty lightning-y out, but C. just didn't want to stay in the basement any more. And neither did I, to tell you the truth. But dang if I didn't turn off the computer, grab the fuzzy one & the phone, and race down the stairs as soon as I cognized what that siren sound was about. You can take the fflo outta Kansas, but you can't take the Kansas outta fflo.

Now there's the romantic combo of thunder and the train whistle out there in the semi-distance.

Comments

[revgeorge.livejournal.com]

I thought a tornado watch meant that a tornado had formed and so you had to watch out for it, but then again I could never keep watch/warning straight. They shouldn't have used alliteration.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Yeah---like the admonition not to give two main characters in a short story names starting with the same letter, so's not to confuse yer reader.

A warning's definitely the more severe---the GO TO YOUR BASEMENT one. I think the neuvo touch may be that they now sound one when they see a certain rotation in the storm radar. So more than a storm that might well produce tornadoes---a storm that looks as if it might specifically be about to sprout one or more.

Where are all those lj meteorologists...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Ah! ty

[groovesinorbit]

Yeah, it was the same in Nebraska, that watch/warning thing. Good instincts you got there, girl, grabbin' the kitty and hitting the basement. I would have done the same thing. (and R probably would have done what my dad used to and gone outside to watch. hh)