We loves our crazy weather. Tornado passed over a few days ago, didn't touch down. Six inches of snow last week, then 60 degrees few days later. I've had a junior tornado pass by a few feet from the building I was working in. Another bad one when I was a kid, ended up killing several people and destroying many homes. Worst one hit when I was a couple weeks old. Even knocked over a transmission tower.
The baby twisters we had in California made me giggle. Everybody got so excited when they passed over.
And, they DO sound like a freight train.
I do NOT love our crazy weather, not the occasional tornadoes or hurricanes. Once a few years ago before I left NYC I was driving on the Belt Parkway from Brooklyn to Manhattan with my pal Tom. It had been raining and got dark suddenly. We saw this huge sort of funnel-shaped very dark cloud out over the open water towards NJ. We kept going, just thought it odd as neither of us had seen anything like it before.
Car started to shake. Strong winds. Tons of rain. Saw very fierce winds not too far in front of us, things blowing everywhere, trees bent, branches snapping, debris flying. It moved ahead of us further. We kept going in our ignorance. 4-5 minutes later when we got another couple of miles further (traffic was slow due to heavy rain and debris), we saw that all hell had broken loose ahead of us, lots of destruction everywhere. The dark cloud was way ahead of us and then dematerialized.
Turned on the traffic on the radio: it was a very very rare tornado right there in Brooklyn, right in front of us, just barely missed us... and we had no idea.
Very lucky, but an amazing experience. Go figure!
