No. And frankly, i'll take two feet of snow and sub-zero temperatures over 260mph of F4 fury anytime, anywhere.

Best of luck man, I hope your roof, car, and lawn ornaments stay exactly where they're supposed to be.

Um, where are you guys at? Out here its cold (40F at night and 60F during the day) and no quake in a while. Also, no wild fires in a couple of weeks and no mud slides on hippies in close to a year. Is there someplace warm enough to have Tornado's?

We hit 90º on Saturday here. Not sure what we made it to yesterday, I think just 88º.

tke364:
If you find yourself wondering when the railway opened next to your place, get in the bathroom.

Good to hear that.

low 80's... in march... that is unheard of!

I lived right at the end of 'Tornado Alley' for 20 years. We had a few rough nights every year but nothing brutal. The worst we saw was when a big tornado hit downtown Ft Worth. They can be scary, they can be fascinating, they can obliterate your neighbor and leave your house untouched. Weathermen still can't do much except for point out rotation in the clouds and then track them after they touch down so they can't give much warning. Just take comfort in the odds. They're in your favor

It snowed on my graduation day. I hate Rochester.

I've lived through one tornado in Georgia about ten or fifteen years ago. That was one of the most terrifying nights in my life. Good luck, all of you in the tornado zone. Stay safe.

My worst tornado experience was two years ago. It was this flimsy, shoddily built apartment building I was living in (by myself, natch), and I was playing around on the computer when the sirens went off. I did what I always do when that happens: grabbed the weather radio, a flashlight, my emergency supply backpack (I'm always prepared) and my cell phone, hopped into the bathroom (in that apartment, it was the only room not abutting an outside wall) and huddled under a thick sleeping bag for some small amount of cushioning if any debris collapsed on me.

I'd done this several times for tornado warnings in the past, but this time was different: I could feel when the wind slammed into the building. The whole thing shook like mad, and I could hear the windows rattling outside, not to mention the wind whistling through the vent (you know, those humidity exhaust vents most bathrooms have). It sounded and felt the way it had when hurricane Andrew hit back when I lived in Louisiana, only worse.

A few minutes later when it calmed down, I was so rattled that I stayed in the bathroom and called up my dad to check the radar for me and tell me if the worst was past.

I was convinced that the tornado must have passed right near the apartment, it was insane. I found out the next morning that it had hit just two (small neighborhood) blocks north of me.

Frightening. I've been more scared than before everytime those sirens go off. What's worse now is, I'm living in a one-story slab house with no basement or storm shelter, and there's no fully interior room in the house; noplace really safe to huddle down if a tornado threatens. I moved here late last summer, so I haven't been through a spring storm season in this place. I'm rather anxious in fact.

I've seen at least 4 tornadoes, now that I think about it, all in Maryland, all at least a half-mile distant. I was in a house when a small tornado passed within 10 meters, twisting an 18-inch or so tree 270 degrees off it's base and dropping it next to the porch while removing tin from the roof. I've huddled between rocks in a field, watching a fast moving tornado track across a neighbor's farm, and I've watched a much larger tornado cross the Potomac river and head for the building I was in (I left before it got there, and it levitated above by the time it arrived.) I've never seen one thrash a building, but I've heard one tear up woods almost two miles away - I was in my basement at the time.

When people say tornadoes sound like trains, I know most folks think "Oh, okay, I know what a train sounds like." But what they mean is, it sounds like a diesel-electric train would if you were STRAPPED UNDERNEATH IT AT 100 MPH. It howls and shrieks and screams and I can do without hearing that sound ever again in my life, because it would be a really scary last sound to hear.

It wasn't quite that loud from my bathroom, but I can definitely attest that a tornado sounds like much MUCH more than just "a train". That's why it scared me so much; I'd never heard a storm make noise like that one did. I knew something had passed by, just didn't know how close.

I can do without being that close to one ever again.

The crappy thing? It was the middle of the night (which made it more frightening), so I never got a chance to see it. I've always wanted to see a tornado in person. I just don't want it to be the last thing I see!

I remember that. Strangely enough MD is getting some more tornado activity lately. I think there was another one that touched down in PG county near where my dad worked.

I've thankfully never been in or under one, but have been in viewing distance of a few. Standing outside and watching the storms roll in, there's nothing like seeing the clouds seething and turning all sorts of eerie colors.

The greenage is just creepy. You know when you see it that there is something -wrong- with the world at that instant. You could be totally deaf and not have a view of the threatening clouds, but you'd see 'the green' and know you're not safe.

That is absolutely true. I swear, you see that eerie color pervade the world around you and it just makes chills run up and down your spine. Makes me want to crawl into a hole in the ground and hide. It just feels wrong.

My wife and I hid in the basement in Lawrence, KS during a storm with tornados. Our daughter was less than a year old, and it was just creepy. Not only did we see the "greenage", but prior to hitting the basement we saw the news point out some clouds with rotation frm a camera perched atop Fraser Hall right above where we were living.

Tornados are those things you always want to see, until you find yourself close enough to actually see one. Then it's the last thing you want to see.

I have never seen a tornado touch down but I remember one summer I was running the lights for a Ukranian dance festival in this large out door stage, the audience bowl was actually cut into the side of a very large hillside. The lighting board which is where I was, was about half way up this hill and during the show I could see the valley in behind the stage. On one of the days just after dusk this massive storm system moved into the valley and before I know it the sky turned this really wicked green color (and by wicked I mean evil looking), there was some lightening, I could see the clouds turning in a circle. It was truly an awesome sight. I figured we were going to see a tornado before too long but luckily the storm moved on and nothing came of it. The bad part was the show kept going, had any of us been thinking clearly we probably should have stopped it and had everyone find a safe place to take cover just in case.