Wtf? Who stands on their porch watching a tornado roar past?
La doesn't really get that many tornados that actually touch down and rarely one that size, really.
I have to admit, these past few years when they evacuated Alex for hurricanes, I wouldn't have evacuated. Even here in Oregon I have a hurricane lantern for each room. You just have to be
able ready to live without electricity for... well forever (solar!) if need be.
But there is no way in hell I would ever willingly tangle with a tornado. Weather is one of the reasons I moved here. No hurricanes and tornados are even rarer. In the 16 years I've been here I've only actually felt one quake that I'm sure of. The one that woke me up because the bed jerked, and I thought Troy had bumped into it, but he wasn't in the room. The first time, I was the only one who felt it. I thought the concrete floor at WinCo in Beaverton was going to come up and slap me in the face. That's what it felt like to me, not what I actually saw. I saw nothing. Nothing moved. I was later able to confirm that a quake had happened right at that moment not far from the store, but it was pretty deep and only registered about a 3 on the Richter scale. I learned then that some people always feel them, mainly because they weren't born here. Those that are born here are so used to them, they don't feel the little ones like that.
The storms here are tame compared to what I've lived through in the south. Thunder is so rare I look forward to spring when I might get to hear it a few times over a couple of weeks. I do miss thunderstorms. They make for excellent sleeping once the front has passed.
Sorry. Didn't mean to ramble on like that. It's nuts but they just don't have the experience to think of that before doing.
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