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i'm cooking up SO many randy benson storm chaser thoughts in my drafts rn you guys have no idea what tornado season does to me
#benson loses his car to a tornado in mississippi and they get to steal a toppled over minivan#they also break into someone's storm shelter at some point and take all the supplies they have lmao#randy had a phase so he's the meteorologist and benson just likes to watch the mfs#need to get off work so i can write about them pls god#might make this into a whole au where they travel thru dixie alley and escape into appalachia#the passenger 2023#stockroom syndrome#benson the passenger#randy bradley#dixie alley#tornado#storm chaser#storm chasing
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My county is under a tornado watch, better than a tornado warning. But that can change at anytime
Which this is nothing new for my state during tornado season. But you know who be nice to have with me??
A fellow Arkansan


#vinny voices#tornado season#tyler owens#twister#twisters#about to go sit on the porch#tornado alley#dixie alley
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‼️VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE READ‼️
Okay I know I joke about tornado season a lot (cause I am a tornado nerd who lives in the south) but in all seriousness, please have a tornado safety plan. I know a lot of us don’t have basements so bathroom or interior room on the lowest level of your house away from windows. Never take cover under an overpass. Get in a ditch and cover your head. Don’t try to outrun a tornado. If you see a tornado forming or touch down and there’s no warning or sirens, call 911 to report an active tornado so they can get the warnings out. Don’t forget your pets!! Inside and in your safe space with you!
Don’t stay back to grab stuff. I understand that you don’t want to lose important or expensive things but they can be replaced, you can’t.
PUT SHOES ON!! I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH!!
In the event that you take a direct hit from a violent tornado, STAY WHERE YOU ARE. if there is debris on top of you obviously get out of that but STAY WHERE YOU ARE AND WAIT FOR HELP TO ARRIVE!! DO NOT WANDER AROUND THE STREETS!! if there are power lines down, which there probably will be, DO NOT GO NEAR THEM!! The electricity radiates. You don’t have to touch them to get electrocuted.
Don’t wait until a warning is issued to start preparing.
As soon as a watch is issued or tornado possibilities are confirmed, put your shoes on, grab something to cover your head (preferably a helmet if you have one), and gather your things into your safe place.
By time the warning is issued you only have a few minutes, maybe seconds, to get to your safe space if you are to take a direct hit.
KEEP YOUR NOTIFICATIONS ON AT NIGHT!! Night time tornadoes have the highest mortality rate of any tornado. Make sure your phone is loud enough to wake you up! Especially if you live in a rural area with no sirens.
That’s about all I can think of right now but please please please don’t wait until the last second to get to your safe space. It’s better to over react than to under react.
Stay safe, my loves ❤️
#tornado alley#tornado season#tornadoes#tornado#weather#weather news#I may or may not have a tornado hyperfixation but that’s besides the point#dixie alley#midwest#south#severe thunderstorm#weather stuff#thunderstorm#severe weather#tagging Oklahoma cause y’all do be having a lot of tornadoes#tagging Georgia too cause that’s where I am and not a lot of people have tornado plans even though we have them all the time#tagging all of the Midwest and south#alabama#mississippi#missouri#Kansas#illinois#iowa#Texas#arkansas#lousiana#nebraska#florida#indiana#colorodo
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Seven for a Sunday
Woke up at 1:55 am this morning. Wasn't sure which 1:55 it was, CDT or CST. Found out five minutes later when the clock fell back an hour. Ugh.
Whoops! Seven for Sunday didn’t happen.
Let’s go with Monday Musings.
We’re under a tornado warning. This has been going on for at least an hour. So far it’s missed us but we’re not out of the woods yet. Looks like one has a good chance of coming straight towards us.
My city doesn’t have tornado sirens. I’m in the south. Dixie Alley for tornadoes. The powers that be said it was because people nowadays have other ways of getting that information from other sources. Presumably they mean smart phones. I don’t know what their reasoning was prior to 2007/8 when smartphones became popular. 🤦♂️ I live about a mile from the university and they have sirens and I can hear them going off.
I finished training and certification for the new job this past Friday. They then surprised us with doing an hour of taking live calls. That was interesting. This is a temporary job that ends December 9th. I had two interviews lined up with similar customer service outsourcing companies.
One of these companies blew off my interview. They sent three emails the morning of reminding me of the interview. They never called. A few days later they sent a “We know things come up, blah, blah. you can reschedule if you want to.” Hard pass.
The other interview went well. I got an offer within a few hours. Unfortunately, I’ll still be working m current contract and couldn’t take the job. They reached out today with another opportunity but still not in my availability. They said there are other opportunities coming up and they will keep me in mind.
That’s all for now. I’ll keep you updated with how things turn out weather wise. The threat of severe storms will be around until at least midnight if not later.
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Today the Midwest is dealing with a second day of crazy storms and tornado outbreak and it reminds me of a story. I moved to Pennsylvania when I was 15 and a couple years later I met my high school bestie, we stayed close for years, even when she eventually moved to Illinois like a year or so after school.
A few years later I wander off to the Midwest, camp myself in Kansas City and I went on a Facebook rant about how excited I was to see what the storms were like and how novel it was that there were storm sirens. It was my first time hearing one!
She, reasonably, replied to my rant with a frantic warning to not fuck around with Midwest storms, they are nothing like the weak things we got in the mountains, basically she gave me the riot act about not being an idiot. Having completely forgotten that I grew up in the (poorly named) Dixie Alley and experienced my fair share of tornados, devastating storms, flooding, and a Cat 5 Hurricane. The reason I never heard a storm siren is because back in the 90s the south didn't believe in them, apparently. She very quickly agreed that I was fine and told me to go enjoy the storms and just try not to get struck by lightning while doing photography.
There was no warning down there and not great radars on the weather channel at the time, so you had to get really good at learning how to read a storm, the only direct hit with a tornado occurred when I lived in an apartment building top floor, there wasn't enough time to get lower so my mom threw me in the bathtub and threw a mattress over me, still have no idea how she moved that fast. Earlier that day I fell while playing and cut my hand and it scarred into the shape of a tornado, I like to think of it as a protective charm. That was the same year we weathered Hugo in SC, my first time seeing a hurricane eye and some of my clearest early memories.
I have lived in the Midwest (KC and Wisconsin) for a decade now and nothing I have experienced here matched what I experienced in the south. In part because the Midwest is so much better at warning that storms are happening. Thankfully the south is getting better, but it is still way too far behind.
I am sad that all the storms are popping to the south meaning no rain and I am going to have to water my plants :(
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Severe weather season is going to be picking up here in the Midwest! Remembering the lives lost in the 65 Outbreak that not only affected Indiana but other states in the Ohio Valley, Dixie Alley, and Tornado Alley💔 Stay safe this season ya'll! 🫶🌪️
Twin Funnels from the Palm Sunday Outbreak, Indiana 1965
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#palm sunday outbreak#twin tornado#severe weather#indiana#tornado#1965#photo by paul huffman#photography#dixie alley#ohio valley#hoosier alley#tornado alley#tornadoes#storms#thunderstorm#tornado season#storm chasing#natural disasters
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I wish more people knew about Dixie Alley :(
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There are some nasty storms coming to the midwest US tomorrow (03/15) - be sure to have a safe place to shelter in the event of a tornado, and stay weather aware, everyone! <3
#we're getting mostly just hurricane winds here#probs not tornadoes?#but dixie alley is in the firing range for sure 😬#lbm#little baby man#solhunder art#danny phantom#dp
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it's all fun and games until the youtube weatherman starts saying "oh god. oh my god"
#with palpable fear in his voice no less#anyway it's officially Tornado Season in dixie alley#stay safe out there y'all#musings
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this shit ain't nothin to me man
#dixie alley is CRAZY DAWG#raccoon rambles#im ok btw#i feel like im playing natural disaster survival
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no sleep tonight, just tornadoes and sky high anxiety.
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ur info... dump it...
*PULLING UP ALL MY NWS RESOURCES* WHAT WOULD U LIKE TO KNOW
#did u know theres actually a secondary tornado season#did u know that green clouds doesnt always mean tornadoes nor even hail#did u know that 'Scary Looking Cloud' is a legit term used by storm chasers#did u know that there used to be a myth where people would go out of their way to open windows during a tornado warning#did u know the twister in Wizard of Oz was practical effects#did u know the widest tornado ever recorded was only rated an EF3 (and its actually a contentious rating)#did u know that many countries outside the us experience annual tornadoes#did u know tornado alley is NOT shifting youre just seeing an uptick in tornadoes in dixie alley?#did u know Ted Fujita aka the F and EF scale guy surveyed tornado damage after surveying damage from the hiroshima and nagasaki bombs#did u know pennsylvania had an EF5#that ones not as interesting im just biased towards my state
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Y'all do know not to shelter under and overpass during a tornado, right? Like you'd literally have a better chance in the open than under and overpass DO NOT GO UNDER THE OVERPASS—
#sorry I was watching a movie and guess what they did#I live in dixie alley which is tornado alley for the south#and the amount of ppl who've never encountered a tornado that got killed doing that#tornado season be upon us
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i feel like every weekend for like the past month or so there’s been forecasts for bad tornadoes and this weekend doesn’t look much better
#not even in my area just in general#dixie alley hasn’t caught a break all spring so far i swear#h talks
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Severe weather tonight til Sunday hate to see it
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i need ryan hall to stop talking abt the surrounding areas around me 🙃😀
#welcome to the official start of storm season dixie alley 🫡🫠#katie.txt#it's so damn windy i had to come into the main house
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