gillumhouse said:
Yep, when we lived in Illinois and heard tornado warning the attitude was "so what else is new?"
WATCH = What else is new?
WARNING = Where exactly? Northern part of the county? That's where they usually go, along the North-South Continental Divide. So why are those blasted tornado sirens going off then? No one up there can hear them!
ROTATION = What is up with that? They didn't do "rotation" when I was growing up! It's all because of that new technology! Rotation over Claremont Avenue? Didn't notice anything as we drove home... Blasted TV thrives on ratings and what else is there going on? Whatever!
FLOOD = Gosh, county seat a couple of counties over is under water again. Guess that's what happens when you drain a
swamp! [Great Black Swamp... biggest swamp in North America, now fertile farmland covering a big chunk of Ohio into Indian and Michigan. It's eradication is an amazing story of pioneer fortitude and burn parties.]
BLIZZARD = What we had this year didn't count. (Only 14" and the winds weren't high enough or sustained long enough.) Still remember the one from 1977, though...
HURRICANE = By the time it gets here it's a heavy rainstorm.
FOREST FIRES = Only you can prevent them. But apparently having rain helps with that!
EARTHQUAKE = Yeah, sure, right, you felt that one last year. I felt the one in 1987, but only 'cause I was on the third floor and how many buildings here have that many floors?
=)
Kk.