I grew up in parts of North America where tornadoes were common.
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I grew up in parts of North America where tornadoes were common. A few of them touched down scarily close to my home.
My spouse didn’t grow up with tornadoes and never thinks of them.
Yet I still reserve a portion of my energy for checking the weather during this time of year and knowing where we’ll go for safety if one strikes.
Some habits are impossible to break.
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I grew up in parts of North America where tornadoes were common. A few of them touched down scarily close to my home.
My spouse didn’t grow up with tornadoes and never thinks of them.
Yet I still reserve a portion of my energy for checking the weather during this time of year and knowing where we’ll go for safety if one strikes.
Some habits are impossible to break.
(For those of you who don’t know, the season for tornadoes generally lasts between about now and September. June and July can be the worst time for them in the parts of Canada that have enough tornadoes for a tornado season).
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I grew up in parts of North America where tornadoes were common. A few of them touched down scarily close to my home.
My spouse didn’t grow up with tornadoes and never thinks of them.
Yet I still reserve a portion of my energy for checking the weather during this time of year and knowing where we’ll go for safety if one strikes.
Some habits are impossible to break.
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@lydiaschoch I have friends in the tornado alley so I remember about those things even though I live on the other side of the Atlantic.
A friend also tricked me into writing the first more-or-less complete open-source METAR/TAFF parser, and I felt both sad but also lucky that I couldn't get any real samples with FC(+) "tornado or funnel cloud" in it.
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I grew up in parts of North America where tornadoes were common. A few of them touched down scarily close to my home.
My spouse didn’t grow up with tornadoes and never thinks of them.
Yet I still reserve a portion of my energy for checking the weather during this time of year and knowing where we’ll go for safety if one strikes.
Some habits are impossible to break.
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@lydiaschoch I have friends in the tornado alley so I remember about those things even though I live on the other side of the Atlantic.
A friend also tricked me into writing the first more-or-less complete open-source METAR/TAFF parser, and I felt both sad but also lucky that I couldn't get any real samples with FC(+) "tornado or funnel cloud" in it.
@dmbaturin I wish you could have gotten those samples!
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I grew up in parts of North America where tornadoes were common. A few of them touched down scarily close to my home.
My spouse didn’t grow up with tornadoes and never thinks of them.
Yet I still reserve a portion of my energy for checking the weather during this time of year and knowing where we’ll go for safety if one strikes.
Some habits are impossible to break.
@lydiaschoch I totally hear you! I'm originally from Chicago, which also is a hotspot for tornadoes on an annual basis.
Even now, living in Colorado where they are very rare, I still watch the skies for the unearthly color and the train sound in the wind.
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