Warning!

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I have The Weather Underground send me e-mail and text-message alerts when severe weather watches and warnings are in effect in southeastern Wisconsin. This is great and everything, but the weather service issues endless slightly-updated bulletins, and I get each and every one of them, so when storms are in the region, like yesterday afternoon, I get something beeping every ten minutes. I felt like running down the halls shouting, chicken-little-like, “We are all going to be killed by the possible severe thunderstorms! Which may form due to conditions favorable for the formation of severe weather!”

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[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

The people whose business it is to warn us about severe weather are way too paranoid; they cry wolf far too much. If I actually reacted the way their recommendations say, I'd be spending a tenth of my life hiding from imagined tornadoes. I don't even want to hear about it unless there's actually a tornado, and not just one somewhere within 50 miles, not just one somewhere in my (large) county, but actually one coming close to my town.