That's true. Every now and then all the TV alarms go off and someone comes on
and says a funnel cloud was suspected over in such-and-such, and I laugh,
'cause down South there usually ain't no "suspected" about it. Once, many years
ago, I was driving from North Carolina to College Station, Texas, and stopped
for the night in Forrest City, Arkansas. Slept the sleep of the dead in a
Holiday Inn. Things were a might stormy when I went to bed, but I didn't think
much about it. Woke up the next morning to find out five twisters had hit
overnight. Apparently one of them ripped a bridge right out of a nearby river
(not the Big Muddy) and threw it across the county.
And I slept through the whole thing. Could really have been the sleep of the
dead, I reckon.
--Bob
On Apr 5, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> If you'd had our winter, you'd have been dancing a jig while the tornadoes
>> swirled. Tornadoes? We ain't skeert of no stinking tornadoes. <vbg>
>
>
> Up there in Occupied Canada, you generally don't get those mile-wide
> monsters featured in the movie "Twister". IE, "Hand of God".
>
> Growing up in Michigan, we didn't either. Mostly stove-pipes and
> shapely funnels. Moving to Iowa changes things a bit. Seeing entire
> communities reduced to water pipes sticking out of the ground is a bit
> humbling.
--
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