Thursday - April 28, 2011

Oh Noes!

A tornado warning has been issued for our part of New Jersey. High winds, hail, intense rain, severe thunderstorms. Run away, hide, panic!

The TV stations are going whacko.

I’m not taking this lightly; it’s good that such warning systems exist. In Kansas and Iowa and the other states in Tornado Alley they can save your life. And there has been some awful and unusual weather around the country over the past couple of weeks. Including tornadoes in the most unlikely places.

It’s just that I have some doubts about such things here in New Jersey. And I’ve seen the weather people overreact so many many times before.

But if somehow you stop hearing from me in the middle of a po

update, 40+ minutes later: ..st.  Ha, a bit of self inflicted irony there. We got some really heavy rain as the system came in, and some really heavy rain a bit later when the system moved out. That’s it. No hail or thunder, no big winds, no twisters. Now it’s just back to our regular heavy rain that we’ve been having nearly the entire month. Oh joy.

The tornado anomaly over the past few days has been very severe. Tornadoes have touched down and caused massive damage in the most unlikely of places. The news this morning said that over 200 people have died from these storms.

So don’t take the warnings lightly. Even if you live in New Jersey or other places where tornadoes almost never happen. “Almost never” can still get you killed. Be alert, be prepared. 

Posted by Drew458     on 04/28/2011 at 09:43 AM   
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