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[geekchick]

Heh. I'm used to the word "snow" causing everyone in this area to panic, but rain?

When in danger or in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout.

[Update: Okay, so they updated it to a tornado watch while I wasn't looking. I swear that when I posted that link it was just about thunderstorms.]

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Interesting. In Georgia, at least they used to keep everyone at work or school during watches and warnings, on the theory that you were at least as well off there as caught out on the road somnewhere...

[geekchick]

Frankly, I think I might feel a bit more secure in my office than in my apartment. Let's just say that the quality of the interior construction gives me doubts about the quality of the exterior construction.

And now I'm remembering tornado drills in grade school. Everybody had to file out into the halls and kneel down with our heads towards the lockers, hands covering our necks. We did actually have a couple "this is not a drill" incidents, but never any harm done. Eek. The things that are wedged in my long-term memory. It could be mathematical equations or something useful, but instead it's the natural disaster equivalent of "duck and cover"

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I thought (given pictures on your website) that you and Chris lived in a house, rather than an apartment?

In junior high, we actually had a tornado touch down in a field across the street from the school -- all it did was uproot a large tree and knock down the power lines. Another one later went literally over my house (aloft) and touched down a mile away near the same school (tearing up a forest stretch that we kids then observed while on the bus to school every day). A bit eerie...

[geekchick]

The one-bedrooms in this complex are single-level apartments, the two and three bedrooms are two- to four-level stacked townhouse-like apartments. They call them townhouses, but as far as I'm concerned they're just multi-level apartments. And now I have to go figure out what pictures you had in mind when you were thinking "house". :)