1395: Women are the Best

[Keith]

"I heard a knock on the door, and I wadded up real quick."


Tim Dimond

[Vylla]

I grew up in Kansas, just on the other side of Kansas City, there were a couple times where a tornado got up close to my town. Thankfully the ones that did come around were all either petering out or just were really luckily placed, skating just in between farm houses or hopping over them (Tornadoes can bounce and jump up sometimes).

I think the most terrifying one was a time when a tornado watch went out just as school was getting out and the administration had to decide if they wanted to risk sending us home or keeping us there in the basement. Since an official tornado hadn't been spotted, they ended up shuffling us onto the bus and sending us out. Of course, as soon as we got far enough away from the school the sky started turning green, the wind picked up, and then the tornado sirens started blaring.

We ended up having to pull over into the grocery store parking lot and hide in their shelter until it blew over us with all the other shoppers who got stuck there.

If you grow up in tornado alley, you get desensitized to it. You expect, every fall and spring, to end up huddled down in your basement every week or two playing board games with the weather radio next to you for a good three, four hours.

Other random information? Nearly every house, school, and business in tornado alley has a basement or a cellar. It's really bizarre to find one without it. The trailer parks have a tornado shelter every two blocks or so as well. If you happen to find yourself in a place without one, you are supposed to go to the innermost room, preferably with no windows (if you're lucky, it'll be a bathroom) shoes on, and wrap yourselves in thick blankets or hide under a mattress. If you're in a bathroom you're supposed to hide in the bathtub and hold on to the plumbing fixtures.

You get taught that in first grade. Kinda crazy. You can also tell a lifelong Kansan by if they can pick out an anvil cloud or not (the type of cloud tornados form from).

[scottperezfox]

Great Jesse Joyce impression! More of that.

Also, having Julio as a live studio is great. Love the authentic sound that brings to the show.

[punk'n]

LOLZ all over this fucking episode...more Tim plz!!

[Snarky]

My friend in Joplin lived in an 10 story apartment building. She went down into the basement under the stairs with all of the other residents in the building. The building was completely gutted. It was just a skeleton left. Everything inside was blown completely out. She said she felt lucky, because there were other apartment buildings that were completely leveled. Craziness. I've never actually seen a tornado, but living right in tornado alley, we've had several tornado warnings each year since I can remember. (how many times can i say tornado in one sentence?) They always taught us in school that if you don't have a basement, you're supposed to go to the innermost part of your house, like a hallway or a bathroom. They suggest getting a mattress to put on top of you to protect from flying debris. It's hard to know exactly what to do though. If your house collapses, you're most likely going to die.

[Blitzgal]

I voted for Keith. One of my pet peeves is when someone lights up standing immediately next to you while you're waiting for the bus, or lighting up in the bus shelter. Not even any pretense of trying to stand a little bit away to not be an asshole about it. I have no problem with banning smoking at city owned locations.

But I do believe that private businesses should have the right to allow smoking, and as a consumer I will simply seek out businesses that advertise as smoke free.

[punk'n]

Originally Posted by Snarky

My friend in Joplin lived in an 10 story apartment building. She went down into the basement under the stairs with all of the other residents in the building. The building was completely gutted. It was just a skeleton left. Everything inside was blown completely out. She said she felt lucky, because there were other apartment buildings that were completely leveled. Craziness. I've never actually seen a tornado, but living right in tornado alley, we've had several tornado warnings each year since I can remember. (how many times can i say tornado in one sentence?) They always taught us in school that if you don't have a basement, you're supposed to go to the innermost part of your house, like a hallway or a bathroom. They suggest getting a mattress to put on top of you to protect from flying debris. It's hard to know exactly what to do though. If your house collapses, you're most likely going to die.

Yeah I made friends with my neighbor that has the basement apartment last night. I live on the second floor and I never really thought about where I would go, because like the other person said, I'm completely desensitized to it. Just last week, I was out on my balcony talking to Face on the phone and he was like, "What is that noise?" and I replied, "Oh, that's just the tornado sirens, they're so annoying." Then I went back into my house and went to bed.

Usually tornadoes just hit the outskirts of the cities and affect one or two people. Having an entire city leveled really woke me the fuck up.