h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The storm passed, and I'm still here, but I was more than a little unnerved for a while . There was some rain like I've never seen in my life (not even that time on the M6 just south of Manchester), and some hail, but if there was a tornado, it must have dissipated before the storm got here. Before I came here, my wife assured me that tornados just don't come this far south - omitting to mention that the town of Jarrell is only 40 miles north of here, where in 1997 one of the worst tornado for years (an F5!) flattened the town and killed several people. I'm going to go and learn the words to "Oh God Our Help in Ages Past" now, I might just need them because this weather isn't done yet!

Tornados? We have those here, too. I live a little ways away from tornado alley, that's where almost all of the tornados are sighted in Illinois. I've grown up with tornados and horrid snows and droughts and heat... I don't usually think about it. In school, we had fire drills and tornado drills every fall and spring. You tend to get used to it. (There's a fault line in Illinois, too... gotta love it!) Don't worry, I've kept alive for a while here, it's not too hard to do. Just as long as you don't aggravate nature so she's after you, you'll be okay.
Oh, and on a random tangent, you had that scare on my birthday. Interesting, eh?