Now tornados I have not experienced so they may have freaked me out and caused nightmares, Earthquakes I grew up with so they dont stress me at all, my wife when she felt her first one there was a bit freaked and it was a smallish one
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As beautiful as she usually is Mother Nature can get pretty violent! I remember standing and watching a tornado go up the street at the end of our block and throwing all the trees all around. Big huge old trees were just uprooted like matchsticks. I was not very old and it all happened so quickly that my mother didn't even have time to gather us all up and move us to safety. All those trees laying willy-nilly all over the place gave us kids in the neighborhood a fabulous place to build forts for the next few weeks!
WOw I can understand why that would cause nightmares, i have seen the after effect of a Tornado but ( touching wood) I have been fortunate to never actually experience one
All of those weather patterns seem to be getting so much more extreme. My other tornado experience was one afternoon when I was late leaving work to get home in time for the kids to get off the school bus, As I drove down our road and came to our neighbor's house that moments before been flattened by a tornado. I could see the path that the tornado had taken through the woods and trees were flattened and I could see that there was already assistance arriving at the neighbors house so I kept driving not knowing what I would find when I got home. It was the most terrifying 1-mile drive I ever made. But when I got home everything appeared fine, the kids were in the house and had no idea that just up the road all of that chaos had even happened. It had all been fine just 10 minutes before when they had gone past on the bus.
WOW so lucky the kids were home safe and the tornado missed them completely, that must have been a truly unsettling experience indeed and yes I do agree the weather patterns have surely changed the extremes getting more extreme, but so many people refuse to see it, but to me it is so clear
Whether they choose to see it or not it will soon become an undeniable fact when it reaches their own back yard, I'm afraid!
yes I think your are spot on, I think a big part of the problem is the term global warming, when it gets extreme cold or storms they say that proves its not warming, the term Climate change is what should have been used and is more accurate
That is right, and I think understanding that there is a difference between weather and climate is important.