You know it's almost Christmas when the tornado sirens sound

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It's the day before the day before the night before Christmas. It's warm. Like 68 or 70 warm. Everybody has on shorts. Cloudy and raining and a surprise cold front is coming in. Tornado warning. Thats great to wake up to. The sound of the apocolypse outside your bedroom window, because they use the air raid sirens for that.

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Tornado sirens are appropriate for Christmas, since their intended purpose is to warn of coming disasters in general, not just tornados.

I hate air raid sirens. I'd hate not having a warning if there was a tornado coming even worse. Is everything ok? I've never actually been in a tornado but I've lived where it was definitely possible.

Oh, it's fine. It was a small one. We don't get those big ones this time of year. Nobody even stopped driving around because of it. It's just limbs down and stuff. Nothing major.

In April they tore up Tuscaloosa really bad and also Eoline. The one in April threw a fire truck about a quarter of a mile. We didn't have power for a week after that!

Spring is when we get those big f-4's and f-5's. Look on YouTube and watch the one where the f-5 hits University Mall. The guy filming it was in the parking lot and it shows it hit. That was about 30 minutes from my house. 45 if I'm driving. The one on YouTube was the one we had in April.

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I'm glad we're not likely to get anything like that. It's not absolutely impossible that the five dormant volcanoes nearby could blow (ask the folks around Mt St Helen's), but probably not. DD and I were evacuated from our previous home due to a forest fire this summer but that's about it. The southeast corner of the state is another matter. We learned what to do in case of tornado, lightning or hail pretty early.