Tornadoes? Say what?!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

So there's a tornado watch in effect (he says as the thunder rumbles) where I live in CT. In all my years I ain't never heard of such a thing in these parts. We get hurricanes and gales, the occasional hail storm, but tornadoes? That's a Midwestern and southern thing. Until now, I guess. Well, if we can have 120 degree heat in LA, Biblical flooding in the South, mass drought that never ends...I guess it's the apocalypse and all that groovy stuff. Time to prep and dig that bunker. It appears climate change has hit North America properly now, and we's all in for the sh*t. :ack2:

[YesNo]

I hear climate change will hit southern Florida in a few decades, but by then it will be underwater. I once saw a tornado less than a half mile away. My dad drove us away from the farm and he realized as he was speeding away on the country road that the tornado switched course and was following us and so he turned around in a field and headed back to the farm house as the tornado crossed over the road. We survived.

[tailor STATELY]

We had an EF1 tornado here in the Sierra Foothills (Cameron Park) this winter. I saw the alert on my cell phone but it was about 20 miles away. When I was in tech training near Minneapolis in the mid-'80's we had many tornado alerts the two weeks I was there; their's are significantly more energetic.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

So there's a tornado watch in effect (he says as the thunder rumbles) where I live in CT. In all my years I ain't never heard of such a thing in these parts. We get hurricanes and gales, the occasional hail storm, but tornadoes? That's a Midwestern and southern thing. Until now, I guess. Well, if we can have 120 degree heat in LA, Biblical flooding in the South, mass drought that never ends...I guess it's the apocalypse and all that groovy stuff. Time to prep and dig that bunker. It appears climate change has hit North America properly now, and we's all in for the sh*t. :ack2:

and to think it wasn't that long ago, Laurentide was polishing your landscape under a few thousand feet of ice.

[Dreamwoven]

I hear climate change will hit southern Florida in a few decades, but by then it will be underwater. I once saw a tornado less than a half mile away. My dad drove us away from the farm and he realized as he was speeding away on the country road that the tornado switched course and was following us and so he turned around in a field and headed back to the farm house as the tornado crossed over the road. We survived.

Florida is experiencing sink holes suddenly appearing under houses. http://dep.state.fl.us/geology/geologictopics/sinkhole.htm