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Tornadoes are frightful things, because of their unpredictability! I am terrified of them. In 1979 most of my husband's family lost their homes in a mammoth F-4 that practically destroyed the town of Wichita Falls, Texas. We drove in to check on them the day after the tornado hit and the damage was unbelievable. Half of the city had been reduced to shredded toothpicks. His brother and one sister lost their homes, but thankfully all of them were alive.

And you guys are afraid to live in California because of our (very) occasional earthquake. I have lived in CA all of my life and can remember maybe a dozen earthquakes. That's one earthquake about every four years. And most of those have been tiny little things. Since we moved away from the Andreas Fault twenty years ago, we have felt no earthquakes at all. ;-)

In 1979 most of my husband's family lost their homes in a mammoth F-4 that practically destroyed the town of Wichita Falls, Texas.

I was stationed in Wichita Falls in 1975 at Shepard. The last weekend that I was there they assigned me to be CQ (Command of Quarters). It meant that I was "in charge" of the squadron for an 8 hour shift. Of course we had to have a tornado watch going on during my shift. Now this was not a good thing; to put a California girl as CQ during a tornado watch. The squadron was brand new buildings that had no basement or shelter of any kind. That had to be one of the longest nights on my life.