Tornado sirens! Fun for all!

[Bouncy Ball]

The dog is cowering and shaking, the cat is who knows where, and I just got the ten year old to stop crying (mortified of thunderstorms).

Here's what I found for my area:

"Tornadoes... hail to 3 inches in diameter... thunderstorm wind gusts
to 80 mph... and dangerous lightning"

Dangerous lightning. Is there any such thing as non-dangerous, or safe lightning?

[Bouncy Ball]

1. Aaaaand, we're getting hailed on now.

[chickenscratching]

2. nice! "Dangerous lightning"

:eyes:

on edit: please be safe in the storm!

[Fenris]

3. You're west of Dallas, no?

[Bouncy Ball]

As Rumsfeld would say

I'm somewhere west or south or north or east of there.

:rofl:

[benburch]

4. Yikes!

Be careful!

[Bouncy Ball]

5. Did I mention I have a meeting to go to tonight?

(political one)

This will blow over by then.

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. yikes!

sounds like one hell of a storm there...stay safe!

[ewagner]

7. Don't take any chances

take shelter......

good luck!

Looks like some nasty stuff but not very deep...

here:

<http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p19r0/si.kfws.shtml>

[Bouncy Ball]

12. Yeah, it's not really huge, but from what I can tell

it's not moving very quickly, either. Kinda hanging out.

[ewagner]

13. Still...don't take it lightly

even small "convective" storms can be dangerous......

good luck.....

[halobeam]

24. nice to have that link....ey?

I think if we don't fight it, you will have to pay for a service for your weather report....

cha freakin' ching. (background noise in *'s head)

[Maddy McCall]

8. We're supposed to get some of the bad stuff AGAIN tonight.

I hate the sirens. I wish there were some way besides sirens to alert the public. I think they are more traumatic than the storms, themselves. I never had problems with my son being afraid of the storms until they implemented the sirens. I live about three miles north of town, and I can hear them clearly. My parents live in town, and the sirens are deafening. I wonder how many stress-induced heart attacks those damned sirens have caused.

I have a weather radio. It truly is a lifesaver.

I hope y'all fair well. I hate stormy weather...especially when it's spawning tornadoes.

[Bouncy Ball]

10. I don't mind the bad weather but I do mind

the possibility, however remote, of my house being ripped up and all of us flung to the four winds.

And yeah, the sirens. My daughter was fine until they started. I was talking to her when we heard them and I watched her whole face change and her eyes fill up with tears.

[xmas74]

14. We have way too many college kids around

here who do not take cover. To them, the sirens mean run to the bars, get drunk and stand outside to watch the tornado come.

I used to live way out in the country and the sirens were actually from patrol cars w/ a megaphone yelling for us to take cover (not kidding). I prefer the sirens now that I am much closer to town.

[sundog]

9. say hi to the tinman for me

:scared:

good luck bb :hug:

[redqueen]

11. Ahhhhh, springtime in Texas

:hi:

[Bouncy Ball]

15. Ooo bye, tornado spotted five miles from here!

[crispini]

16. Huh. It's not here yet.

I can see it from here though.

[barb162]

22. get under cover!!!

[xmas74]

17. I'm sure you'll be fine.

We had them going last Wed or Thurs-not fun at all.

[ComerPerro]

18. I would have suggested you go outside, but if its "dangerous" lightning

maybe you should stay in.

[Bouncy Ball]

30. LOL, no kidding.

For safe lightning, I go outside to play.

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. Oh goodness, stay safe!

[barb162]

20. do you have a basement? Hurry into the basement, Bouncy!

[Bouncy Ball]

31. Basements are against the law in Texas.

Just kidding, but we don't have them.

We go to the master bedroom closet, the most interior, sheltered spot in the house. It's fairly big (walk-in) so we can put the three of us and the two pets in there easily.

[barb162]

32. Bwaha: illegal basements. Glad everyone is safe.

[intheflow]

21. Tornados scare me worst of all the natural disasters.

I don't know why, too much Wizard of Oz as I child, probably. But I grew up in Massachsuetts. We got a single tornado about once a decade. I can take earthquakes, nor'easters, blizzards and hurricanes, I LOVE thunder and lightning storms, but tornados make me cower in the basement corner. So you have my sympathies, Bouncy!

:hug:

[barb162]

25. they give me nightmares but then again I am in tornado alley area

I was also VERY, VERY close to one once (across the street) and they don't sound like freight trains. They sound like you're standing 20 feet behind 747 engines on takeoff when you are close to them. Stuff like roofing materials and chairs, etc., were falling out of the sky ten minutes later. I thought I was a goner.

[Beaverhausen]

23. Aunti Em! Auntie Em! There's no place like home...

I lived in Kansas for 3 years when I was young.

I still hate sirens.

Be safe! :hug:

[miss_kitty]

26. "Dangerous lightning. Is there...non-dangerous, or safe lightning?"

That makes me recall one of my pet peeves about MSM. Referring to certain crimes as 'brutal' (brutal rape, brutal beating) AS IF there's a non-brutal version. :eyes:

[Beaverhausen]

27. I agree. I hate "Tragic House Fire" as opposed to the fun kind.

[frictionlessO]

28. Take pics!! and report back!

Just kiddin' (sorta)...
seriously though give us some update in the weather group here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=328

I love first hand accounts!! No 'nados up here in western NY (well an f1 every few years...)

Hope your storm goes over easy.

[Bouncy Ball]

29. Ok seems to be past us now, but there are some little

connected storm systems that keep popping up. We spent a while in the closet and now have a local news station on to keep up (I never think to turn on the TV normally).

What I hate is when it's storming and then it just suddenly goes calm, still, and the sky turns greenish-yellow. Ick.

Crispini, is it to you yet?

On edit: SUN! I love the mutliple personality disorder that is Texas weather in the spring. LOL

[tammywammy]

33. Ahh, I just drove in it

I live in SW Arlington, and work off of 183 in Irving. I think some little pea sized hail hit my car on 360. But it was bad out there...really bad.

But here at work, it's cloudy but the sun is shining.