hot-cold-hot-cold. that's how the weather has been running here lately. a couple of weeks ago it was warm and with it came tornados killing dozens of people. the tornado's came through in the night. it always seemed to me that tornado's came through in the morning or evening but not usually in the late night.
i've lived in tennessee all my life, i have seen the funnel clouds and the destruction that it leaves behind but i have never been directly affected by one other than minor hail damage. i consider myself very lucky. i do know that you never know how or where they will strike. i remember seeing a path of destruction from the 1974 tornado's in east tennessee. an old brick house that was built 3 bricks thick was gone and then right across the road another building was standing strong. all you can do is shake your head and wonder.
also in the 1974 tornado's i remember standing outside with the family watching the storm come.(why we do that, i don't know) we lived in a rural area with lots of farmland. we could see the funnel cloud over the next rise. my dad told my mom, sister and me to get in the car and drive to the access road so we could get on the interstate and drive the other direction if it got to bad. i remember sitting at a gas station listening to the weather and looking outside to see what was going to happen. hail started falling...really big hail and then nothing. the eerieness gone. and it was over. we headed back home to find everthing as it was. and through all of that i never felt a sense of fear from my family. no freaking out. no "oh my we are going to die". no panic.
just another day in the country. you take it as you see it.
back to the present-2 days ago it was in the 70's this morning it was snowing. yep, we southerners seem to be always talking about the weather. it's because there's always something going on with it.
4 years ago
