Yay! We're under another tornado watch!

[beam me up scottie]

South central Kentucky, until 9am.

As a native Vermonter, I want to know when are we never NOT under a tornado watch?

I swear we've had them every month for the past year.

And I thought the NOAA weather radio would make me feel safer.

:banghead:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

1. Stay safe- okay?!

:hi:

[beam me up scottie]

3. Thanks!

I'm starting to understand why the natives just learn to sleep through them.

[EST]

2. South central Illinois, here.

Lotsa lightning, thunder, and wind but nothing worse, so far. Dogs in the garage, cats in the cat house (one with kittens in the nursery) and flashlights at the ready. (Sigh) Here we go, again!

[beam me up scottie]

4. Yikes! I just saw that on the radar.

Got a basement?

[EST]

18. Back.

Yeah, I would not live in the area without a basement.

[beam me up scottie]

22. Glad to hear it.

Basements are few and far between around here.

I think the threat of severe weather is the reason why one guy who lives up the road built his house into the side of a hill. Only the front of it is exposed.

[Tesha]

24. Does his house have a round front door? (NT)

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. So, where's your 'fraidy hole?

Grew up in Oklahoma. Our 'fraidy hole was usually the master closet.

[beam me up scottie]

6. LOL!

The bathroom, or if it's REALLY bad, the tub!

I haven't had to get in there since November, I was at work during last week's outbreak.

Fraidy hole, I love it!

Did you ever have one hit close by?

[MnFats]

7. this is a weird spring....a week or so ago weather channel said..

...there had been 400 tornados reported this spring....in the same period last year, 96.
something's going on....and the window shade of bad weather (you know what i mean...creeps north as spring progresses...) hasn't even reached us here in the north yet...

[beam me up scottie]

8. Yeah, I heard the same thing.

And we're just starting the season.

Hopefully you won't get too much of it this year.

[Tesha]

25. Remember all that "global warming" stuff that many folks don't believe in?

Remember all that "global warming" stuff that many folks, even
here at DU, don't believe in?

Well,

1. It's better described as "Global Climate Change". More energy
being trapped in the atmosphere means more severe weather events
of all kinds.

2. It's real.

3. It's here.

4. It's just beginning; the ride will get even more exciting in
the upcoming years.

Tesha

[nonconformist]

9. Hey neighbor, I'm in south eastern Kentucky

While we're no strangers to the occasional severe weather, the frequency of late is quite unusual.

I'm a native Michigander, and I lived in Kansas for 5 years when my husband was in the Army and had both of my children there. I will *never* miss the weather in Kansas! The day we brought our oldest child home from the hospital we had a tornado and spent the whole evening in a shelter - then we had another one, accompanied with golf ball sized hail when he was 6 days old. Good times! :crazy:

[beam me up scottie]

10. Hi neighbor!

I've heard about those hailstorms, they had a hell of a one here in 98.

You still can see some of the cars on the road, looks like someone dropped a bunch of bowling balls on them.

Give me a good old nor'easter blizzard anyday.

At least you can see those coming.

[nonconformist]

12. Yeah, we called our car the Swiss Cheese-mobile after that

But hey, it was Kansas... it was weird to see cars WITHOUT hail damage there!

Here in Kentucky, it seems that everyone has been talking about our unusual run with bad weather lately.

[beam me up scottie]

14. Last week was the first time I saw the natives freak out.

We could see the funnel clouds forming while we were at work.

Then the hail started and you know that's never a good sign.

One guy's wife called him just as the sirens went off.

Dummy took off in his truck, right into the storm.

Lucky for him he didn't get in the path of any of them.

[justice1]

11. The weather across the country is getting scary.

We've already had tornado watches this year in Nebraska. The storms moved east into Iowa, where someone was killed, and there was quite a bit of structural damage.

Living on a lake, my kids usually start swimming around Memorial Day. This year they started swimming in early April, which is unheard of.

[beam me up scottie]

13. It's been up in the 80s here already.

Several times.

I hate having to mow my lawn in March.

I saw the damage from those storms in Iowa, and the ones just south of here in Sumner County.
I can't get over how much damage was done in such a short time.

I'm starting to wonder if hiding in the bathroom would even matter when a storm like that comes my way.

Solid brick houses were turned into piles of toothpicks.

[beam me up scottie]

15. Well, no sense in staying up.

I've got the windows open so I can hear the COWS siren.

Goodnight everybody, stay safe! :hi:

[nonconformist]

16. Goodnight, take care! nt

[megatherium]

17. Nothing like being woken up by a severe thunderstom.

Lots of lightning, dime-sized hail. (I'm in Louisville.) I've been up for 2 hours (since 3 am EDT) waiting for the storms to settle down. Still in progress, each time a cell moves east, a new batch has appeared to the west.

More heavy weather expected later in the morning.

[beam me up scottie]

20. Same here.

I heard the NOAA alarm just before it hit.

No way to sleep through the kind of thunder that rattles the windows.

Looking at the radar now, it looks like you guys are in for it, hopefully it won't be too bad.

[alphafemale]

19. We are in some weird zone where the Alert radio goes off AFTER the

storm/severe weather passes us.

We are Savannah area, and our signal seems to come from Charleston.

Which gets severe weather about an hour or so after we do in most cases.

We chucked the weather radio because it was essentially useless to us.

[beam me up scottie]

21. I have mine set for my county

as well as five surrounding counties.

Is it the time zone difference?

[Tesha]

23. Welcome to "Global Climate Change".

Brought to you by SUVs and Americans everywhere riding
to work alone in those SUVs.

Tesha

[nonconformist]

26. We've been getting hammered for awhile now

Tons of lightening and very LOUD thunder, and some very small hail.