OK I'm a wimp!

[Judi Dial]

I grew up in Los Angeles, no major windstorms. We have tornado watch here for today and tomorrow. If I think about this, I will want to crawl under the bed!

Give me an earthquake anyday!

Judi

[Libby]

OMG Judi! I want neither!! Here I'll come hide with you! *hugs*

[Lady_V]

Judi quit hiding it's not going to be that bad!

Okay, so we *do* have the tornado watch and we will have a light show later tonight and early tomorrow morning and enough rain coming to worry Noah...

Relax, make some tea and enjoy the show!

[krbshappy71]

Judi, I was in the earthquake of '89, NOOOOO THANK YOU. I still have nightmares of it.

I'm in Colorado and tornado watches are here and there through the summer. I don't even think about watches now. If its a warning I'll make plans but even then I'm listening to the radio, checking out the porch weather (as my other neighbors are doing as well, we wave to each other and discuss the clouds)

We've had some lock downs at my work (a middle school) and one day a tornado did hit a half hour away in neighboring town. Several tornado warnings afterwards I was pretty hyped up but its faded again.

I got a basement, a plan, and God. I'm good.

[dcompton]

I've always lived in tornado country, except for the years in graduate school when I was in NY and Toronto. I agree with Lady V - relax.

Most watches never turn into warnings, and even if there is a tornado on the ground, which I admit is scary, the odds are still very greatly against it hitting YOUR house. They are very localized, unlike earthquakes and hurricanes. I once lived a couple of blocks away from where one went through town, and with a tornado, "a miss is as good as a mile." There was some wind damage, but nothing life threatening from even that close.

Keep an eye on the weather and if the clouds begin to look suspicious, keep the radio on, know enough of the geography to know if it's heading toward you, and have a place figured out to go in the house. It's all you can do, and all you need to do. (Well, maybe have critical files backed up on a flash drive in your jeans pocket - just in case your computer is off to see the wizard!

[Megareader]

I grew up in Los Angeles, no major windstorms. We have tornado watch here for today and tomorrow. If I think about this, I will want to crawl under the bed!

Give me an earthquake anyday!

Judi

I'm right there with ya! I tell people you can take the girl out of California but you'll never take California out of the girl.

[Paws]

I've always lived in tornado country, except for the years in graduate school when I was in NY and Toronto. I agree with Lady V - relax.

Most watches never turn into warnings, and even if there is a tornado on the ground, which I admit is scary, the odds are still very greatly against it hitting YOUR house. They are very localized, unlike earthquakes and hurricanes. I once lived a couple of blocks away from where one went through town, and with a tornado, "a miss is as good as a mile." There was some wind damage, but nothing life threatening from even that close.

Keep an eye on the weather and if the clouds begin to look suspicious, keep the radio on, know enough of the geography to know if it's heading toward you, and have a place figured out to go in the house. It's all you can do, and all you need to do. (Well, maybe have critical files backed up on a flash drive in your jeans pocket - just in case your computer is off to see the wizard!

And I agree with dcompton and Lady V...

[Lady_V]

Okay Judi... it's now 5 am. The warning was canceled over 7 hours ago --- are you still in NH or has your house landed on a pair of shiny red shoes?

I have lived in Massachusetts my whole life, the only warnings I take semi-seriously are blizzards. I can count on one hand the amount of hurricanes, tornadoes, alien invasions and tsunami's combined

[thesightofoneself]

i cant blame ya, its scary out there, mother nature can be a real bytch

[Judi Dial]

No red shoes, and I lived through the slymar quake, whatever year that was, it woke me up, threw me out of bed!

Thanks all. I think it's the warning that gets me. Earthquakes just happen, no warnings, no pics on the news etc. What freaks me out I think is all the warning about what MIGHT happen?

Anyway -- Thanks!

Judi

[frugalfranny]

The 'veterans' say relax and have tea.....so guess you better do that!

I'll pass on the earthquakes too......thank you very much. Was in some (nothing major) when I lived in Calif. but the first 'jolt' just darn near stops your heart! Heard the one at Bear Lake...will never forget that sound!

I just want some safe little 'corner' to live without mother nature showing us that she can do her own thing.....whenever she wants!! We have had three 'tiny' ones this year and I am wondering if she (MN) is going to start invading my piece of the world more often.

[mauimagic]

Is that even breathing coming from NH that I hear now? I think that it is scary to hear about what might happen - but then I'd rather be warned and given the opportunity to prepare than not.

Tsunami warnings always get us hear - and we listen, just in case.

[frugalfriend]

I got a basement, a plan, and God. I'm good.

I like that, and so agree!

Former California girl here too (30 years there) and I'll take the Colorado tornado watches we have here any day over earthquakes. Hang in there!

[mndtrp]

I grew up in Kansas, and I agree with dcompton. Be safe, but it's incredibly unlikely you'll get hit.

[Saule]

I grew up in California, am now in the Midwest. I remember being in SF when we had an earthquake - the hotel was swaying - I looked out the window, saw no emergency vehicle lights, so I went back to bed. My colleague apparently spent the rest of the night under the desk in the hotel room.

We had tornado warnings and watches here a couple of days ago, and I'll tell you, when that siren goes off, I literally get a pain in the stomach..... Earthquakes have no warnings, so you don't have that extended fear factor period, but a pox on both of them!!!!