Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 26, 2021

Why am I thinking they’re going to be moving very soon? I hope they have a basement.

What state do Janis and Arlo live in?

Getting back to what Arlo said, if you can’t hear it, it ain’t no tornado.

Look up. If you can see the sky instead of the roof, there’s a tornado.

When the sky turns green worry about tornadoes.

That is easy all they have to do is get their Armature (HAM) radio license get a 2 Meter handheld radio join the local NWS Skywarn take the NWS Skywarn class and listen to the radio she will then know about the tornados before the news

If a cat 5 comes over, she won’t need her phone to tell her.

Got to check the doppler radar.

You’ll know, doll! :-O

Back in the day of CRT TVs, you could switch to an unused channel and when the static got much worse, head for the cellar.

pray, hope & don’t worry – saint padre pio

Listen for the freight train – if you don’t live near the tracks, head for the basement

we have sirens that go off when a tornado is sighted i our area.

Wow – what a coincidence. There were tornados all around us last night. We had only straight line winds of about 70 miles per hour – no damage, but a lot of my tree limbs down.

When you see things flying around. There might be one.

What do a Texas tornado, a Florida hurricane, and a West Virginia divorce have in common?

Somebody’s fixin’ to lose a trailer……..

Easy Janis. When the rain starts flying by horizontally, its a tornado.

“Cow!”

Just wait for the sound of a train…

As a kid I remember looking out my bedroom window and watching the sky turn a ferocious purple color and saw the twister form and touch down maybe 10 or 15 miles away (or closer, I don’t know for sure as I was a kid) and being amazed … right up until I saw it tear up an old barn and which point I got scared and my folks grabbed me to get away from the window and honker down in our central hallway. We didn’t last that long in tornado country …

We were so happy to move from being longtime Eastern Oklahoma residents to the gulf coast of Texas. One reason was that Tornados reach Tulsa at night many with only minutes to prepare. We had at least 6 a year within 10 miles of home. Very disconcerting in the dark. On the coast we had no hurricanes for years at a time, and all with days warning to prepare. But, after 32 years there the pace picked up, and we found that preparing for a storm at 69 was much tougher than when we were 40. We had bahama shutters and lexan shields for windows…but still about 8 hours work in the heat. One of the last storms destroyed a boat barn 3 miles away…including our boat and antique furniture. Spurred us to move to Dallas by our grandkids. The closing on selling our coastal home happened during a hurricane in July. We were staying at a Marriott in Plano in December when a tornado tore a 15 mile path right by us. Year later we had Snowmageddon. Oh well.

Answer: when the rain is going horizontally.

Some people go outside to enjoy the storm. I confess to being one of them. How about you?

South Something

Must not be Oklahoma! We know when they are coming

Weather alerts on your tv and phone.

You would rather find out from a decent distance.

And they still get it wrong