Tornados in December is NOT what I had in mind for Santa to bring me.
Around dusk here last night, all the local weather radars had a tornado inbound from due west of here. The last two tornados that damaged the area took exactly the same track. Plus, Uncle Sam and Homeland Security mounted an air-raid siren a block from my house that would melt a db-meter and I think peeled the paint of the side of the house that faces it. It goes off, the phone is blasting every other minute with warnings, and my nerves tightened up like a high E string.
We live in an old neighborhood, and our house is surrounded by massive trees which give great shade, but could come over on us. So we loaded up and went and rode it out at the neighborhood hospital along with others.
They think three tornados came through, and two of them were less than three miles away and 8-9 miles away (incredibly the first was a mile from the hospital). The first tore up my route to work every day, know those streets very well, and they're shredded with three fatalities. The second wrecked parts of Hendersonville where Greg's friend has his shop. 6 fatalities so far, and lots and lots of shredded homes, businesses, and lives.
Me and my wife are fine, house is good, but these things are simply become a fact of life around here every other year or so. My wife is a Nashville native (rare !) and thinks this was never a problem for most of her life, so we think it's one more symptom of Global Warming, but who really knows.
There's nothing like being scared sh****ss to make you appreciate things.
