Remember when?

[Jerry Oz]

I love robb_k's posts because I learn more fun him than anybody else on line. And Marv, I don't remember the tornado drills until after Xenia had five of them in one day and was almost wiped off the map. We had them every year after that.

I remember being a high school sophomore one day when tornadoes touched down. The principle called us all together to dismiss us two hours early. By the way, I was too young to drive and I lived two miles away from school.

[robb_k]

I love robb_k's posts because I learn more fun him than anybody else on line. And Marv, I don't remember the tornado drills until after Xenia had five of them in one day and was almost wiped off the map. We had them every year after that.

I remember being a high school sophomore one day when tornadoes touched down. The principle called us all together to dismiss us two hours early. By the way, I was too young to drive and I lived two miles away from school.

You had to walk home 2 miles with funnel clouds headed your way??? I would have guessed that the school buildings would have been safer than a house. Did your house have a deep basement?

We had a nice, safe basement when I lived in Homewood, Illinois. But it didn;t matter. The Chicago area was so big and created such a heat dome, that tornados couldn't penetrate it. Pretty much the same in Winnipeg, But, they don't get many true tornados that far north, anyway.

Did you live in a small town or rural area, where the tornado danger is much higher than in big cities?

[marv2]

I love robb_k's posts because I learn more fun him than anybody else on line. And Marv, I don't remember the tornado drills until after Xenia had five of them in one day and was almost wiped off the map. We had them every year after that.

I remember being a high school sophomore one day when tornadoes touched down. The principle called us all together to dismiss us two hours early. By the way, I was too young to drive and I lived two miles away from school.

The Xenia ones happened when I was in the 8th Grade. Yep almost destroyed the entire city. The big ones I lived through were the Palm Sunday Tornado 1965[[they have the old news coverage up on Youtube) and the 4th of July Tornado 1969. That one destroyed our backyard.