It's obviously due to the timing. Storms are predicted to hit right around dismissal time. The last thing we need is a bunch of kids being let out in the middle of tornadoes.
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It's obviously due to the timing. Storms are predicted to hit right around dismissal time. The last thing we need is a bunch of kids being let out in the middle of tornadoes.
It seemed like June was more tornado season when I was a kid. I don't remember there even being severe storms during the school year. It was always in summer it seemed.
About the same time that personal injury lawyers started putting up billboards every 1/4 mile on the highway.
Yeah but it was easier to hunker down in the one-room school house rather than get the kids out in horse and buggies. Not to mention walking uphill both ways in stormy weather is very taxing.
I don't know how old you are, I just talk **** like that to my dad every chance I get.
KidSilverhair
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Sounds like my wife. She was cooped up in the downstairs bathroom riding out the derecho, hearing our massive old elm tree crashing down in our backyard (almost entirely missing our house, thank god). Now every time there’s a thunderstorm warning anywhere in the county she’s all “we better head down to the basement.”
Me, I was stuck in my car along the side of the highway in the derecho, getting pelted with rain and rocks after the rear window blew in, praying I wasn‘t going to get blown over into the ditch - and I’d still rather go out the front door and watch the lightning.
KidSilverhair
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/Insurance companies hate this one simple trick/
Maybe the closest I have been to a tornado was one that missed my elementary school in November 1960 by a couple of blocks in Manchester, Iowa. We didn't even know about it till later. Little boy me was pretty impressed by the stuff driven into tree trunks when we looked at the damaged houses later. Of course this was the era of "Ooh, seems like tornado weather. Is that a siren? Better go sit on the front porch and watch the west sky!"
your right this is probably the first time in the history of storms that they've hit during the mid afternoon time frame
I don't like how it's going to hit us right when it gets dark.
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KidSilverhair
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My brother and I climbed on to the roof of our barn occasionally when we were kids, including one day when the weather was brewing. I still remember seeing what were probably wall clouds forming, coming together, and seeming to head right for us. Not much later a tornado did hit only a couple of miles from our farm.
I was FOUR YEARS OLD. When I realized that thinking back, I apologized to my mother many times for doing that.
But I still like to watch storms.
Since 1980 (per records) June is the worst month in Iowa with May being a close second. No other month really is close after that.
Also practiced going under your desk for a nuclear bomb going off. Everyone was so smart back then.
Road I came upon today.
I was born in '85, so that definitely backs up my internal perception. The tornado I was most directly involved with happened in June as well. I was essentially chasing this storm with my brother and best friend after it (unbeknownst to us) passed over our car when it was (briefly) not on the ground.
Northeast of Wesley would be the heavy stuff.
