You're an amazing story teller, Jay.

Out here in Kah-lee-for-nyuh we don't get much in the way of
twisters. I mean, they do happen, but they're not much more
than oversized whirlwinds. Some trees down and that's about it.

However, I've had two closish calls with them just the same.

About 12 years ago one of these "super-whirlwinds" had gone by
two blocks from where I lived. Yeah, bad strom blew through, but
didn't notice any 'twister' till it was on the news.

The other time was at work. I was back in the warehouse staring
out the door watching the weather. Suddenly the wind picked up.
Then stuff started swirling around in the parking lot. I stepped
outside and looked up. The clouds were swirling like mad. I
thought it might be a funnel cloud but wasn't sure having never
seen one in real life. Wlp, that evening on the news there was
a report of a small twister hitting some neighborhood directly
down path from where I was. Turned out I was right.

You know, I thought to myself the other day after seeing some
of the tornado damage in the Midwest, that I think I'd rather
deal with the earthquakes here than a bunch of supercells out
there.

Brian
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