Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 25, 2021

That’s my wife! Bless her heart! ❤️‿❤️

The shrubs have turned white. Janis isn’t the only one frightened!

Sometimes the weather dweebs remind me of Chicken Little with their storm hype. (The sky is falling, the sky is falling!)

Janis is wishing they’d put in that root cellar during the virus year of isolation.

Well, yes, it is literal, but not for everyone. Just the weather spotters.

Once bitten, twice shy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR9S6EN7pGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0jW-IBu6Y

For the first three panels I thought Janis was having bra issues.

Very appropriate these last few days; somehow the shrubs in panel 3 didn’t get colored

Please if you see one take a picture, I remember riding in one in the mid 60s, the friend who owned it told me it was a rebodied TR3. Oh, yeah, see the article below:Tornado Cars was founded in 1957 by Bill Woodhouse & Anthony Bullen and based in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, UK.

The first model was the Typhoon Sports body fitted to a Tornado designed and manufactured chassis to which a range of engines and treansmissions could be fitted. About 350 of this model are believed to have been made through to 1962.

Next came the Thunderbolt with a stronger chassis, still with a 2 seater body.Tr3 engine and gearbox, Ford consul back axle. Only one was made and still belongs to the original builder of the car.

A similarly styled Tempest model featuring a Ford Anglia 105E engine and independent wishbone front suspension was introduced around 1960-61, but only around 15 were produced.

In 1962, the company introduced the Talisman 2+2 coupe carrying an attractively styled fibreglass body on a more sophisticated tubular steel chassis with Ford 1,340cc or 1,500cc engines in 2 states of tune. This model was available either in component form or factory finished and was praised for having lively performance combined with good ride and handling characteristics, and a high standard of finish. Cash-flow problems forced the company into liquidation in 1964 after just 186 Talismans had been made.

If you’ve ever lived through one – I’m with her.

My dad used to joke about having a device on his wrist that not only told the time but flashed a light when a tornado was imminent. It was his tornado watch.

do we know where Arlo and Janis live?

I was at work one day (in SoCal) and glancing out the window at the yellow clouds, I said, “If we were in Illinois, I’d be headed for the storm cellar.” About 30 minutes later a tornado touched down a mile away. That was two blocks from a friend’s house.

Me, when the boomers get to going. Last night we had some but the cat was more worried than I was. lol

I once saw two tornadoes within minutes from my 5th floor office window. The first was just the tail poking down out of a cloud, then back up, and it was really close. The second was much farther away and seemed to be on the ground, although I couldn’t see the bottom of it. It was also very weak, I could see right through it. Another time, a neighbor and I watched the clouds right above us moving in different directions. Later, we heard news reports of a touchdown a few miles away.

And here I thought she was taking selfies!

This is incredibly timely for us in Nashville. We have a steady rain currently (9:30 a.m.) and threat of tornadoes this evening. Please stay safe, my friends & neighbors in Tennessee, Alabama, & Mississippi.

Tornadoes scare the CRAP out of me. We live in Eastern PA and we’ve had several in our area over the past few years. When growing up, they were unheard of in our area. Now? It’s at least twice a year… o?o

Saw 5 tails dip out of a cloud once about a mile away. Luckily I was in a very secure location and, even more lucky, they went right back up.

Tornados are very rare here, but over the years we’ve gotten more and more watches and warnings. Until April 27, 2011, I paid little attention to them. On that night, two tornados touched down, killing several people and destroying many homes and businesses. Some of the damage was within about a mile of my home. However, FEMA provided no aid here because there “wasn’t enough damage”. These days, I take notice of those watches and warnings. And I can say that it is a myth that tornados only occur on flat land.

“Get away from that window, Janis, and watch a nice relaxing movie. Let’s watch The Wizard of Oz.”

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!”

Yeah … I’m with Janice a bit. I lived in tornado country as a kid and grew to respect “big weather”.

Janis is right. When a tornado watch is announced we are wise to watch the weather for tornadoes.

I’m with Janis

That’s why l like it here in California. All we have to worry about is the occasional earthquake or wildfire.

In OKC, we often watched the tornadoes in the distance from our country club situated on a hill. Sometimes we’d call our buddies at nearby golf courses as we watched them touch down on their course. Kinda creepy, but very cool.

Oh, it’s that season again, isn’t it

Back when we lived on the top floor of a 2-storey walk-up, the rear window was perfect for tornado watching. Never saw any but there were some threatening skies on view.

Take my word for it… you will hear it coming.

Welcome to Texas. Live here long enough, and you learn when to chill and when to take it seriously.

I thank the gods I don’t live anywhere near Tornado Alley.

So does “You do you” mean something in American speak?

I’d be watching the weather radar instead of looking out the windows – what if it comes from the other side of the house?

Well played!

My third hospital’s intercom code for tornado was “Dr. Black,” so as a bit of a military history buff I’d chuckle at “Dr. Black Watch” – the Black Watch was a famous Scottish regiment.

A BUNCH of Alabama citizens got kilt today because of tornadoes.

I was born in ‘54, and my childhood and high school years did not have long range radar, much less all the way out to Africa. I can remember going to school in sunshine, clouds coming up mid-morning and being dismissed due to hurricane by lunchtime. I’d go out to the bus and clouds would be racing across the sky and by night the fun was almost over for a quick-mover and just starting for the slow crawler. Then the meteorologists began learning how the hurricane’s form, especially the ones off Africa that take nearly 3 weeks to cross and have been the source of most of the deadliest hurricanes in America. It took until my mid-40’s for me to finally calm down and not panic the moment a tropical wave started to make a tropical low as it was weeks and weeks out. Now I don’t worry until it is near landfall (I’m not on the coast for the first time in my life, but I’m still close enough to be affected by the hurricane….but not like the TV show, Dallas, where the South Fork Ranch had (imaginary) sustained winds of 200+ mph for hours and hours and hours).

We don’t get tornadoes here often. There were some this year, but not in our immediate area. We don’t get earthquakes here often either – 2 in last 10 years & none before that in my memory.

But we do get hurricanes, nor’easters & major snowstorms/blizzards. Big wind storms. When one of them is coming or even just a regular wind storm my husband, Mr. Fearful, has us prepare. All cell phones (even the ones with no service as they can still call 911& are on different systems than current phones) & all laptops (cable co’s wifi runs down our street & despite them insisting we can’t access it in the house – we can) are plugged in – just in case. When lose our electricity it tends to be a case of weeks, not days before it is restored & we live on a main road which has to be cleared quickly of trees and downed lines. Last storm – Hurricane Isaias – we were lucky and electricity was back the same day – other people were out for weeks, it was so bad that the local government is again trying to figure out who should run the local electricity to get repairs done timely and for people to be able get information. No information was available after Isaias as the “local” radio news stations only talked about the next state over.

Our normal logic is in summer have very little food in the house so if we lose electricity we don’t lose much. In winter we need to have food in the house as if it is a snow storm we will not be able to go out and get food afterwards and if it snows we can always put the cold food outside in the snow in large plastic boxes to keep it cold. Husband has been in a panic for each storm since last March as we have 2-3 months of food in the house all time as we only go out every month or two for same. Actually had a fight with a former medical insurance company which insisted husband had to get 90 days of insulin at time – if we lost electricity any of it we had for more 42 days would have to be tossed out and they would not cover replacement.