I live in a town 10 mins south of joliet. and on Monday they are predicting severe weather. and i was wondering where the highest chance of a tornado is. and what the rating is? any weather people who report in the chicago area please answer asap! thanks!
And this is an every night thing. The scenario changes everytime.
Last night’s scared the crap out of me. I’ll describe here:
My grandma, a friend, and I had gone to a hair salon to get me layers and dye my hair blue. Hours later, after my hair was drying, I look out a window and see a huge dark cloud with an tornado reaching down to the ground – what people call a "wedge tornado". We, including the hair professional, ran outside, and realize that another tornado had been forming right behind us. All of a sudden, the area erupted in fire, and I ended up being pushed to safety by the hair professional with her behind me – leaving my friend and my grandma behind. I watched the tornado suck my friend and my grandma up, and kill them. I don’t remember what happened after that because I had shot straight awake.
The scenario starts out like this in all of them though: happy, calm, then dark and dangerous with a tornado reaching to the ground. The situation in the dream is always different: party at friends, hair salon, shopping, sisters house, but a tornado is always appearing in the dreams. Sometimes somebody dies, but not always, and when somebody does die, it’s a person in my close family who I love very much. I never die in my dreams.
So, can somebody please tell me why I keep having these dreams? I started a couple of weeks ago, and it’s gotten worse since the 3 severe weather storms we had only two nights ago.
Thanks ;D
I’m in Georgia I should say, so not close to Missouri. And I haven’t been watching the news at all about it. I heard about the tornado, and didn’t want to hear about it. Tornadoes scare the crap out of me. And if it makes any difference, my brother is stationed in Missouri. >_>
I live in a mini-home and have always been nervous in bad thunder showers because there is not a lot of roof above you, also if a tornado was to come it’s a bunch of wood on blocks ready to blow away. I also drive school bus and keep it right in my yard. The bus weighs I believe around 25000 pounds, is made of steel and designed for safety. Would it be safer in it during severe weather?
I live in Kansas & we tend to have quite a bit of tornadoes. I’ve experienced many & I’ve even seen them form in my own backyard. I’ve seen homes destroyed by them & I’ve seen them rip a whole tree from my front yard. Of course, since I’ve experienced so many, tornado safety is second nature to me & I’m more calm than someone who’s less experienced. But I have one especial fear… I’m petrified that my family & I will be asleep while a tornado is nearby late at night. I’m a very heavy sleeper, as well as my brother, sister, & grandparents (I live with them). If those sirens went off, they just wouldn’t be loud enough to wake us all up. I’m so scared that one night, there will be a tornado & I’ll remain asleep. How do I get over this fear? Is there any way to assure my safety? We’re having very severe weather right now & we’re under tornado watch as I type this. Also, there’s been a series of tornadoes in Missouri the past few days, one of which hit Joplin & killed tons of people just yesterday, so you can see why I’m especially worried tonight…
I get REALLY freaked out of thunderstorms, tornadoes, and other severe weather. I’ve learned every single thing there is to know about them, and I even like watching videos, but when they happen, I get extreme panic attacks…Can anyone help?
I’ve tried everything I can. Last time there was a really bad storm and we had a tornado watch, I ran to the basement and started screaming "I wanna go home!"
Please help. It’s getting really annoying cuz my friends are starting to make fun of me for it…
Mostly Thunderstorms and Tornadoes…PLEASE ANSWER!
Ok so I live in Louisville KY and we have always had severe weather but I have NEVER been in a tornado. I live in the Ohio Valley so Tornados aren’t too common and I have never really been worried. But now that I have a child I am for some reason terrified of the thought of a tornado! We’re suppose to be having serious storms tonight that could produce tornados and my question is, is my basement that I have to walk outside to get into, safe? It’s underneath the house but I have to walk out the back door to get into it. The door isn’t secure at all and can’t lock from the inside. It’s also un-finished and not big at all. Now my house is old and brick. The basement walls are 5 feet of concrete so I feel like thats a very good thing. My fear would be that the door could fly open and then we get ripped out of the basement or something! I don’t understand why I am so terrified. I guess because before I only had to worry about my own life but now I have a child I have to worry about as well!!! Any reassurance would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Okay, now I live in cross plains, wi about 20 miles west of Madison and tomorrows weather calls for really bad severe weather. And the tornado condition index for south central Wisconsin is 8/10. I am just terrified because I don’t want to lose my house, or anyone else. I’m only 17 years old and I am almost crying because I’m so scared. Is there anything I can do before tomorrow comes around, before "bad things" happen? Please no bad or mean comments, I’m already scared enough as it is.
I’m going to this concert this evening in downtown, in the city where the concert is taking place there is a lot of severe weather & severe thunderstorms happening right now. In fact the weather service has issued a tornado watch until 2am in the morning, it is 2:30pm right now and the show is in 5 hours from now. I’m concered with if they will do anything for safety if they ever issue a tornado warning. The concert is going to be filmed by professional people during the show performance. Would they do anything if the national weather service issues a tornado warning during the live taping or they would just ignore it ? I don’t want to be enjoying the concert with my girlfriend and then dieing because they didn’t do anything.
My son is a fast learner but I want him to learn all about Severe Weather and about what to do in case of a Tornado. What would be the best way to teach him? -Rebecca M. Smith, KY
Hey!Okay so I am 13 and I live in tornado valley basically and we Are ALWAYS getting hit by tornadoes/severe weather.Well guess what?-They are calling for severe weather late tonight and tomorrow.Everytime a storm comes;I feel like I have panic attacks and my parents say to stop it or else(haha)anyway;How can I be prepared for this and get over my fear and actually be able to NOT have a stomach ache Everytime a storm comes.Oh and my family has a Storm shelter and the whole it is in was dug by my dad so that makes me feel even worse!Please help
Okay so I am 13 and I am a weather freak.Well I live in the Ohio Valley which is supposed to be slammed with severe storms today.Can you tell my what exactly I can look for to indicate tornadoes or severe weather.Thank you
Im actually just talking about tornadoes. All other severe weather is fine.
I currently reside in Northeast Columbia in South Carolina and To be honest I really don’t know when does the tornado season start officially. Back in 2008 we had a Tornado Outbreak that occurred on the mid week of March 15th, We had a Tornado Warning and a Tornado Outbreak a day after the Atlanta Tornado Incident. I strangely like severe weather like Heavy Snow & Blizzard Conditions, Tornadoes , Severe Thunderstorms, Hurricanes and etc. It is just so fun to track weather and storms when they appear to occur in your area. So when does the official tornado season starts for the southeastern states and south carolina ? What would Be the best month for me to see severe thunderstorms and severe weather ? I would really like to know really soon because I’m planning to make a youtube channel of videos of thunderstorms.
My husband and I own a duplex in Wisconsin. We live in the lower which includes the first floor and the finished basement where we store most of our things, have a game room and our bedroom. The upper unit has only one door going upstairs. The way the house is set up, the only way to get access to the basement is through our apartment. Someone recently told me that this violates a code since they have no place to go in case of a tornado. We have told them that if we are home during severe weather, they are welcome to knock on our door and we well let them into our basement, but they will be out of luck if we are out of town. Does this violate some code for a rental unit?
Thank you!
I completely agree that it is not a good situation to be without a basement. I would feel terrible if something happened. However, I did not set up the layout of the duplex. There is no way to give access to just the basement without giving access to the rest of our home since the first floor and basement are part of our living area.
If I were looking to rent an apartment to live in, it would be a deal breaker if the place didn’t have a basement. We let them know when leasing the place that there was no basement access when we are not here and they still decided to move in.
i get really freaked out over severe weather? is there any syndrom type?
I was wondering if this happens regularly in other parts of the country:
We have a LOT of severe weather in North Texas. Tornado Watches, Tornado Warnings, Severe Thunderstorms, Flash Flooding, etc.
During any serious weather event.. during prime-time…they interupt regular programming and spend hours (sometimes long after the watches/warnings have expired) detailing the progress of the storm(s).
Now, it isn’t that I don’t appreciate the information, but after a while you just start to tune it out because it doesn’t really seem to be ‘emergency’ news. In fact, it makes me wonder if it actually is causing more harm than good?
And, the thing that REALLY irritates me, is that today (early Sunday morning), I see out my back window a blackish-grey sky and rain going sideways and wonder ‘Hmmm is this a tornado?’.. only to turn on the local TV stations and NOTHING is being broadcast about it! Do they only work during prime time?! So what do you think?
Okay, to be fair I must report that two of the local stations just popped up the radar tracking of this storm (but still, it took almost an hour to report!).
I want to be a meteorologist but I want to do other stuff in the field besides weather woman. I want to work for NOAA and such. I live in Nevada and I was wondering should I go to another state to be a meteorologist? How much math is involved? How deep does it get?
I got this idea fro my love of tornadoes and severe weather, I actually want to storm chase and make videos of these severe storms also and gather scientific data to save lives.
I currently reside in Northeast Columbia in South Carolina and To be honest I really don’t know when does the tornado season start officially. Back in 2008 we had a Tornado Outbreak that occurred on the mid week of March 15th, We had a Tornado Warning and a Tornado Outbreak a day after the Atlanta Tornado Incident. I strangely like severe weather like Heavy Snow & Blizzard Conditions, Tornadoes , Severe Thunderstorms, Hurricanes and etc. It is just so fun to track weather and storms when they appear to occur in your area. So when does the official tornado season starts for the southeastern states and south carolina ? What would Be the best month for me to see severe thunderstorms and severe weather ? I would really like to know really soon because I’m planning to make a youtube channel of videos of thunderstorms.
I currently reside in Northeast Columbia in South Carolina and To be honest I really don’t know when does the tornado season start officially. Back in 2008 we had a Tornado Outbreak that occurred on the mid week of March 15th, We had a Tornado Warning and a Tornado Outbreak a day after the Atlanta Tornado Incident. I strangely like severe weather like Heavy Snow & Blizzard Conditions, Tornadoes , Severe Thunderstorms, Hurricanes and etc. It is just so fun to track weather and storms when they appear to occur in your area. So when does the official tornado season starts for the southeastern states and south carolina ? What would Be the best month for me to see severe thunderstorms and severe weather ? I would really like to know really soon because I’m planning to make a youtube channel of videos of thunderstorms.
When all those solar flares and CME’s hit the earth, where does the energy go? Has anyone found a connection between increased solar activity and more severe weather?
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/augustweb-only/133.41.0.html
http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1965_the_tornado_the_lutherans_and_homosexuality/
The vote passed, they voted "Yes".
An eye witness account follows:
I saw the fast-moving, misshapen, unusually-wide funnel over downtown Minneapolis from Seven Corners. I said to Kevin Dau, “That looks serious.â€
It was. Serious in more ways than one. A friend who drove down to see the damage wrote,
On a day when no severe weather was predicted or expected…a tornado forms, baffling the weather experts—most saying they’ve never seen anything like it. It happens right in the city. The city: Minneapolis.
The tornado happens on a Wednesday…during the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America’s national convention in the Minneapolis Convention Center. The convention is using Central Lutheran across the street as its church. The church has set up tents around it’s building for this purpose.
According to the ELCA’s printed convention schedule, at 2 PM on Wednesday, August 19, the 5th session of the convention was to begin.
( this will be continued )
According to the ELCA’s printed convention schedule, at 2 PM on Wednesday, August 19, the 5th session of the convention was to begin. The main item of the session: “Consideration: Proposed Social Statement on Human Sexuality.†The issue is whether practicing homosexuality is a behavior that should disqualify a person from the pastoral ministry.
The eyewitness of the damage continues:
This curious tornado touches down just south of downtown and follows 35W straight towards the city center. It crosses I94. It is now downtown.
The time: 2PM.
The first buildings on the downtown side of I94 are the Minneapolis Convention Center and Central Lutheran. The tornado severely damages the convention center roof, shreds the tents, breaks off the steeple of Central Lutheran, splits what’s left of the steeple in two…and then lifts.
The only buildings the tornado hit was the Convention Center and the Lutheran Church, across the street, and the tents coneected with it.
My university has a website we can go to to access out email through microsoft exchange. When i go to the website, the login screen displays as usual. Once I type in my info, it takes a looooong time like the page is page loading then I get a HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable message.
Is this something to do with my schools server, or with how my computer is trying to access the server? How can I fix it if it’s something on my end?
We have had some severe weather (tornados) in the area tonight that resulted in some power outages, so could this be part of the problem? It let me access my email for about three hours after the storms had passed, but now I just keep getting this message.
Not sure if this will matter, but I’ve always used a Macbook. I have tried using both Safari and Firefox, both of which always work. I am also using the same wireless conntection as usual.
I have always wondered how they form when I was little I freaked if they said chances of severe weather now I want to know how they form.
- major corporations enlist their thousands of employees to pray together each day for ingenuity or inspiration against the competition?
- hospitals gather all their staff together in the chapel each morning and pray for all the days surgical procedures to go well?
- government agencies allocate millions of dollars to research the benefits of praying for success in combat, or to determine if prayer could help the homeless, or feed the hungry?
- Agencies like NASA begin each day with a nationwide satellite beamed prayer session urging the safe return of shuttle missions, or even for the Mars Rover to start responding again?
- Depts like the NOAA forgo severe weather reports and just broadcast messages telling everyone to pray for hurricanes to weaken, tornadoes to abate, blizzards to disappear, droughts to end and global warming to reverse itself?
What’s wrong with all these people??? Science obviously isn’t helping them. How can they ignore the power of prayer?
Severe Weather TAKS Testing Protocol
1. Should a severe weather situation occur during testing, please remain
calm. To display any kind of anxiety would be a testing irregularity and
must be reported.
2. Please do not look out the window to watch for approaching tornadoes.
You must monitor the students at all times. To do otherwise would be a
testing irregularity and must be reported.
3. Should students notice an approaching tornado and begin to cry,
please make every effort to protect their testing materials from the
flow of tears and sinus drainage.
4. Should a flying object come through your window during testing,
please make every effort to ensure that it does not land on a testing
booklet or an answer sheet. Please make sure to soften the landing of
the flying object so that it will not disturb the students while
testing.
5. Should shards of glass from a broken window come flying into the
room, have the students use their bodies to shield their testing
materials so that they will not be damaged. Have plenty of gauze on hand
to ensure that no one accidentally bleeds on the answer documents.
Damaged answer sheets will not scan properly.
6. Should gale force winds ensue, please have everyone stuff their test
booklets and answer sheets into their shirts…being very careful not to
bend them because bent answer documents will not scan properly.
7. If any student gets sucked into the vortex of the funnel cloud,
please make sure they mark at least one answer before departing…and of
course make sure they leave their answer sheets and test booklets
behind. You will have to account for those.
8. Should a funnel cloud pick you, the test administrator, up and take
you flying over the rainbow, you will still be required to account for
all of your testing materials when you land so please take extra
precautions. Remember, once you have checked them out, they should never
leave your hands.
9. When rescue workers arrive to dig you out of the rubble, please make
sure that they do not, at any time, look at or handle the testing
materials. Once you have been treated for your injuries, you will still
be responsible for checking your materials back in. Search dogs will not
be allowed to sift through the rubble for lost tests…unless of course
they have been through standardized test training.
10. Please do not pray should a severe weather situation arise.
Your priority is to actively monitor the test and a student might mark
in the wrong section if you are praying instead of monitoring. I’m sure
God will put war, world hunger, crime, and the presidential primaries on
hold until after testing is over. He knows how important this test is.
