[McLynnan]

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.

[ohioWfan]

An F4 is a powerful tornado! The town of Xenia, Ohio was completely wiped out by a tornado......probably 20? years ago.....I think that might have been an F4 or even 5.......and then they got hit by another one a few years ago.

I don't imagine I'd sleep much at night if I lived there! Or in 'tornado alley' down your way!

[altura]

Once you see the devastation in person ... well, it's a lot different from seeing it on tv. It really hits you in the gut.

Glad our great Miss Marple is okay, but she'll be a little shaky for a while, I imagine.

She is probably busy helping neighbors right now.

I wasn't scared of tornados until I saw one that landed in Oak Cliff a few blocks from where my parents lived.

[mtngrl@vrwc]

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. ;-)