# Tornado Warnings. Spring Has Sprung
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 22, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745 "2005-03-22T18:03:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745/1 "2005-03-22T18:03:40Z")
The birds are singing. The flowers and the trees are in bloom. The National Weather Service is issuing tornado warnings. Spring is here folks! We just went through the first tornado warning of the season here in south Georgia. From the looks of things, we may get more before the day is over. Ahhh Spring and those all important tell tale signs that it has arrived!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled mundane pointlessness.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745/2 "2005-03-22T18:05:59Z")
Ah, spring, when a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of evacuation and tornado shelters. 😉
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745/3 "2005-03-22T18:11:08Z")
And I was just tellin’ VunderWife that I’d rather have tornadoes than snow…
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745/4 "2005-03-22T18:32:34Z")
> [@Kythereia](#):
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> Ah, spring, when a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of evacuation and tornado shelters. 😉
Now, if it were ACBG and me alone in a tornado shelter… 😃
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745/5 "2005-03-22T18:33:55Z")
The wisteria is just about to bloom, a harbinger of hail if there ever was one.
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### Author:  [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745/6 "2005-03-22T19:31:01Z")
We had a tornado warning over the weekend. In _California_. Weird, but I have seen two here. One was even strong enough to devastate a shed roof.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745/7 "2005-03-22T20:12:45Z")
There was one last night a couple of parishes east of me. At least there isn’t much out there to get hit. We were under a watch, but didn’t get any bad storms right overhead, just a little bit of lightning and thunder.
I DO NOT LIKE STORMS. I’m going to hate it here until storm season is over.
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745/8 "2005-03-22T20:13:05Z")
> [@Cowgirl Jules](#):
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> We had a tornado warning over the weekend. In _California_. Weird, but I have seen two here. One was even strong enough to devastate a shed roof.
Just like in that movie. You know, where the tornadoes hit LA then a big ice storm hits NYC and all that. Ummmm… Day After Tomorrow?
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### Author:  [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745/9 "2005-03-22T20:20:17Z")
Oh boy. Tornado season in Macon. Like we need anything else to turn the population into slobbering idiots.
A couple of years ago, we had two funnel clouds at once come down about 600 yards from where I was happily making grits at the Waffle House. That was fun. I went outside in the wind and called my parents to tell them I loved them, ya know, just in case. Yeah, the grits were ruined, and I guess it sucked that the rich neighborhood got a bit torn up.
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### Author:  [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-warnings-spring-has-sprung/295745/10 "2005-03-22T20:24:53Z")
Ah, spring… [Hurricane Season](http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/local_news/epaper/2005/03/20/s1c_Canes_0320.html) is nearly here. And you think you got problems. 😛