# More tornadoes in Memphis! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817 "2009-07-30T22:18:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/1 "2009-07-30T22:18:52Z")
In a rerun of events from a few months back, I stopped by Starbucks on the way home from work and am currently waiting out a tornado. If I die I expect you guys to have the most perverse wake imaginable, kay? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/2 "2009-07-30T22:57:16Z")
The weather got pretty nasty down here, too: but no tornadoes. I hope all is well. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/3 "2009-07-31T01:25:29Z")
Yeah, it got pretty bad. But on a positive note at least no more “King Willie” ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/4 "2009-07-31T04:50:25Z")
**Skald** , I hope that you are not in Cordova. And quit sending us your used storms! Nashville is finally in the clear tonight. No damage here at all that I know of. Please send West Tennessee BBQ. Best in the world. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/5 "2009-07-31T06:08:07Z")
It’s late, and I scanned the title as “more torpedoes in Memphis”. My brain constructed some bizarre little-known piece of WWII history involving secret inland U-boat missions and the modern-day discovery of their wrecks. ---
**Author:** ![Nation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@Nation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nation)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/6 "2009-07-31T06:19:37Z")
Whatta crime riddled DUMP. Has to be the absolute worst place in the US to live. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/7 "2009-07-31T14:17:18Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > **Skald** , I hope that you are not in Cordova. And quit sending us your used storms! > > Nashville is finally in the clear tonight. No damage here at all that I know of. > > Please send West Tennessee BBQ. Best in the world. Zoe, I’ll tell you my shameful secret: I don’t actually care for barbecue all that much. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/8 "2009-07-31T14:21:32Z")
> [@Nation](#): > > Whatta crime riddled DUMP. Has to be the absolute worst place in the US to live. Don’t be a jerk, **Nation**. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/9 "2009-07-31T14:58:29Z")
We had a tornado sighting just a few miles from here yesterday, and yet the skies remained sunny and still over my house. We got a light sprinkle of rain. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/10 "2009-07-31T23:57:59Z")
Look on the bright side Memphis, Your city came up here to Cleveland Ohio a year ago and paid 10-20K moving allowance, and a 50K /yr. salary to Cleveland EMS employees who would relocate there,and you persuaded about 10 to take employment there. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/11 "2009-08-01T00:57:45Z")
> [@Nation](#): > > Whatta crime riddled DUMP. Has to be the absolute worst place in the US to live. Well my children and I live here so I’m happy we weren’t blown away. I was stuck in rush hour traffic with my little girl and we were very scared but we weren’t far enough down Stage to see more than heavy rain. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-tornadoes-in-memphis/504817/12 "2009-08-01T02:13:45Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > **Skald** , I hope that you are not in Cordova. And quit sending us your used storms! > \ I thought the preferred terminology was “Pre Owned Weather Events”…