Freaking out during severe weather alerts.

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i have seen couple tornado chasers getting trouble in tv their car almost got sucked up by tornado...so most safest vesicle u can have is really a motor bike that is fast since it can turn fast and go fast

But you can't carry all that weather-sensing equipment on a motor bike.

I don't live in the US but have always been obsessed and terrified of tornadoes, i've never seen one in real life. I used to read up on them all the time, learn about them and watch storm chasers on TV.

At one stage the fear got irrational - my old place most storms had a tornado, a small one, but it was never near me. As soon as I saw lightning I would hide in the pantry, and this was only a couple of years ago. Because I would be terrified of a tornado.

I still dream about them every few nights. The latest was about 5 nights ago.

And do less damage when the tornado throws the motorcycle and the rider into a structure.

I live in Houston, and we get the occasional hurricane. I panic big time if it's headed for Houston, because I worry about all my stuff being destroyed. Thank goodness my house was spared during Ike in 2008.

What's the weather like in New Zealand?

The kind of weather alerts I have gotten was about severe thunderstorms or wind. I don't really care for them. I love thunderstorms and I move my car in the street so it's not near the tree where the branches can fall on it and wreck it.

I was born in MI, and when I was 4 yrs old, a tornado went right past our house in Plymouth. Fortunately MI doesn't get them as badly as OH, IN and the rest of the midwestern states. Give me hurricanes any day - you get three to seven days' warning before they come around, while tornadoes can show up all of a sudden, even when a storm doesn't have a lot of lightning, wind and thunder. I'm terrified of severe weather as well, but there's really nowhere you can live and not run into it, except maybe the Arctic circle. Even normally tornado-free California has been getting a lot of them in recent years.

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When I was a child, we lived on the top of a hill in the country. We are located near St. Louis, Missouri USA, so we have numerous tornadoes. Any time there was a storm, I would obsess with securing all our belongings outside. As I grew older, the anxiety caused by storms transformed a bit. Now, I walk out in the middle of the street with tornado sirens blaring to see if I can spot one. Not sure if any of this matters. Could just be stages I've gone through.

One way you ease your fear of a severe storm is to be prepared for it. Have several flash lights, plenty of extra batteries, a battery powered lamp, first aid kit, some extra food set aside for at least 3 weeks, and plan set up where to go if things get too scarry. A good bag full of supplies ready to go if you have to evacuate like durring Huricane Katrina.

Here are some youtube videos on how to make an emergancy kit they are long but worth the viewing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVkntkCh ... re=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOC901gc ... re=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeNVsc3v ... re=channel

I freak out when it's forecasted heavy snow. Especially when it's barely into December and it's already forecasted bad snow! Horrible, miserable, cold, icy winter ahead - can't get much worse than that for me! Horrible!! ! It's September right now, the nights are drawing in, and we've only got just over 2 more months until the borderlines of winter. I'm dreading the day I see the picture on the telly of heavy snow about to sweep the whole of Britain, without missing one area. It just really panics me. I look out of the window the night before the dreadful weather warning, and see how clear and calm it is out there, and then knowing that the next time I look out there it's going to be covered in that white stuff, not to mention how COLD it's going to be.
And it's not the snow itself - it's the fact that everything's so unpredictible with snow. Will the bus come? Will I be stranded at work? Will I have to be sitting at home for days or (worse) weeks on end on my own, because of the fear of walking out in it? Will I slip over on the ice? Will relatives who are driving have an accident on the lethal roads? Will it keep on snowing and snowing until April? Will it make spring and summer shorter? Will it keep this way every winter from now on, only getting longer each year until we end up like Greenland with no summers........ It panics me. It really does. I hate winter and I hate winter weather (apart from rain.)

When a heat-wave is forecasted in the summertime (or better yet spring!), I almost feel like throwing a massive celebration party. There's nothing better than sunshine and warm days ahead, and days out to the beach and no buses being held up and - best of all - no unpredictibilities.

I just freak out at winter weather warnings. Ohhhh!