Freaking out during severe weather alerts.

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I've always overreacted to tornado warnings, that's really all we get around here. I can't IMAGINE how I would react if I lived Down South during hurricane season, people wouldn't know what to do with me.

How about you guys? Aspie thing?

Where do you live? Indiana?

I, for one, hate them.

Michigan, and I am a big baby because we usually never even get them in my area but sometimes we get really close, like tonight, and all of my relatives live out in the rural areas where they touch down sometimes.

I hate them sooo much.

Same in Indiana, where I live.

Can you imagine living in Florida during hurricane season? I think I'd have to be sedated, no joke. I don't know how people deal with it.

I live in Buffalo,NY we get blizzards, ice storms, white outs, lake effect snow storms on a sunny day, high winds, flooding from melting ice, and power outages. If these things scarred me I'd have grey hair and an ulsor as big as a water mellon. We got 7' of snow for Christmas one year in one night. We had an October 13th suprise snow storm that broke all of our trees, My mom gave birth to my little brother durring the blizzard of 77' when half of the south side of Buffalo was in danger of burning down. In short I fear no weather.

There is nothing better than walking in a white out snow storm, you have the streets to yourself and it is completely silent. All you hear is the crunching of snow under your feet. Its very relaxing.

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Nope. I love storms. I'll chase them when I can. I grew up in the midwest. Lots of thunderstorms and occasional tornadoes, hail, straight line wind storms, the whole nine yards.

If you don't like thunderstorms or severe weather you should move to the Seattle area. Seattle has the most boring weather on earth. You'll witness probably 2 or 3 claps of thunder per year. Basically it just drizzles nine months out of the year. The trade off is you have to worry about the big earthquake that hasn't happened yet but will definitely occur at some point in the near future. Also, Mount Rainier could erupt and wipe Tacoma off the map with a massive mudflow.

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I live in a relatively safe area in Texas. I have never witnessed any tornadoes where I live. The most severe weather we have are storms with thunder, lightning, hail, strong winds, and heavy raining.

I remember in February of this year north Texas had the worst snowstorm in, like, 30 years; but that's okay for me, because I like the snow.

When I lived in Kentucky, I used to go outside and watch them. The sky turns the most amazing shade of green during a tornado. A tornado once tore a neighbor's roof off, piece by piece, while I sat on the porch and watched. I even got to hear the actual funnel. It really *does* sound like a freight train!

My mother is the complete opposite. She cowers in a corner of the basement with water jugs and a battery-operated radio. Then again, she clearly remembers the April 3rd Supertornado (http://www.april31974.com/) that came through. I was only seven and have dim memories at best.

At any rate, I have a hard time distinguishing between that one and all the other times she forced me to cower in the basement with her so I probably do remember it, it's just all blended together with all the other ones. Kind of like how my mind deals with Cheech and Chong movies: there's just one big Cheech and Chong movie and everything's in it. I really can't remember which bong they smoked in which movie. heh.

Somehow, all those years of being forced to cower in the basement while my mom freaked out didn't leave a lasting impression on me and I really liked watching tornadoes when I got older. One hopped right over my house once but I barely noticed because my house that time was in a triangle of land between expressways and the tornado hopped over the entire triangle so there was barely a storm in the three blocks where I lived. Weird things, tornadoes.

I only have a problem with tornadoes, I probably wouldn't worry about being in Florida, I have a friend that moved down there about ten years ago, they claim inland it's mostly like an average spring day here in Illinois. I'd likely completely shut down if I were in a sandstorm though... Which is why I never think about them.

It used to be a lot worse for me, where I'd panic just if the sky got too dark during the day and had a massive phobia of tornadoes (even the word alone) it's much better in the past three years, I don't really know why, but now I'll happily go stand outside (as long as it's not too wet).

I also love storms and severe weather. Here in England, we rarely have 'large' tornadoes, although the last tornado that caused damage here was when I was in Year 7; actually, I believe there were two within the space of a few days, and caused little damage - therefore they must have been F1s most likely. A few fences were knocked down, tree branches scattered around, garden decorations or objects thrown from their original places and tiles had fallen from roofs. I don't actually like being outside in the open during a thunderstorm, but if the storm is thundery with downpours, I would gladly stand out in it. In 1987, hurricane Charley hit the United Kingdom - my parents were children at the time - around 10 and they said that they couldn't believe how much damage had been caused. Additionally, this year - we experienced a month/two month snowstorm and very cold temperatures for England, the last storm we had similar to this was 30 years ago; with a foot and a half of snow in parts of England, although in the part of England that I live in, we received around 20cms, more than the year before; although even then we had around 6" of snow then.

The weather in England has been unpredictable and quite unusual the past few years - with heatwaves, snowstorms, etc. If we had tornadoes like the United States has, I'd probably stand outside and watch. Yesterday, we had quite a large thunderstorm and for the whole half an hour it stayed, I stood watching it - I couldn't contain my excitement and kept jumping up and down, as well as shaking my fists at every lightning bolt! It was amazing, as I haven't seen a thunderstorm at night, in years - the last one we had was when I was around 8 at the time, and I was scared of the sheet lightning as it looked as though it was right outside our window. However, since watching Twister when I was around the same age, I don't fear the weather - in fact I love the weather - especially severe weather, and ever since watching Twister, natural disasters/severe weather has been my special interest and I know a lot about them.

I live in Michigan too... and we had a rotation head right for my house!! ! I got freaked out last night, because I have a tornado phobia!

Neat. When there's thunderstorms around I'll get in the car and try to get right under the part of the storm that has the most lightning strikes going on. I've even driven 90 mph down the freeway to try and catch up to a storm that was moving fast. Just have to watch out for the cops. One time I was in the car and a lightning bolt hit so close that I could see orange sparks flying through the air right where it hit. It blew the bark off a tree that was about 100 feet down the road from where I was parked on the shoulder. It sounded like a bomb exploding. That was the closest one but even before that there were bright flashes and loud crashes of thunder occuring every 10-20 seconds. That storm was crazy.

For some reason electrical storms give me a huge adrenaline surge. Maybe it's all the positive ions in the air but I tend to become almost manic. I have enough sense not to drive into a storm that might dent my car with hail or blow me off the road, but I always try to get as close as possible to the lightning. Probably the most dangerous aspect of chasing storms is the heavy rain. If you're driving through a torrential downpour you can suddenly encounter water on the road and hydroplane. I've also run into places where the road was flooded so deep that I had to turn around.

I'd urinate over myself. How terrifying.

I used to panic and tried to stash my collections of things related to my special intrests into the bathroom where we would hide if there ever was a tornado. I wasn't worried about dying or someone I loved dying, I was worried about my collections getting lost or damaged or having our house destryoed and having to live in a motel or some do gooder's house where they would not have any understanding of AS and think badly of me. I would NEVER go to a shelter because they do not let you bring your pets with you. My lizard has to be with me constantaly. Ever since I got my lizard, my every effort has been to protect her and keep her safe so if a tornado actualy would come by and rip off the roof, she'd be the first thing I'd grab. Getting her has been much better than my parents lecturing me about me being materailistic.

Now while I love to go out and look at the tornadoes, I do hide away from lightning. But then I've been struck by lightning, so I know for a fact I don't want to repeat that experience.