Post #1805643

So my first midwest spring is going interestingly. I knew about the storms, of course. Until I moved here, I spent my whole life on the Gulf Coast -- hurricanes and tropical storms are familiar to me, and there's the occasional tornado even outside those systems. I wasn't really prepared for how fast it happens, though. Hurricanes and tropical storms are huge and slow moving things. Heck, the worst ones of my adult life -- two of them stalled out on top of me, and the other was something like 400 to 500 miles wide and punched it's way through half of America and out the other side. All long, sustained winds with generally at least 24 hours of prep time -- if not days worth of watching a narrowing cone. So going from "light rain" to "65mph winds" and "storm front moving at 50mph, ripe for spinning off multiple tornadoes" in the span of minutes -- and than just heavy rain 20 minutes later? It's a very different kind of feel. So far, I think I'll take it over hurricanes. The power flickered perhaps once in the three or four times the tornado warnings have gone off this spring, instead of going out for hours or days or even weeks. No worries about having to evacuate by boat because a stalled storm dropped 50 of water on you in 48 hours, either. Or dealing with the the awfulness that is evacuating a large coastal city ahead of a major hurricane.