<p>soccerguy, yes, i did actually...i can't remember the numbers, but i think it's fast enough that our grandchildren may not ever see southern louisiana as we know it today</p>
<p>Unless you are RIGHT on the coast, hurricanes will not affect you very much. Hurricanes in Florida at most of the colleges are no different from a rainstorm up north.</p>
<p>Well in the Northeast we have to prepare for severe winter storms...</p>
<p>blizzards, high-wind, snow snow and more snow, coastal flooding, etc.</p>
<p>nothing severe weatherwise practically ever happens in CA...unless u count the heat.... at least i dont think its severe compared to what i see on the news in the east coast and midwest.. ha..earthquakes are so rare though... big ones taht are very damaging..hasnt happen since northridge? although theses small one lately are intresting....first time i felt an earthquake in years... im going to be a popsicle in a few months....i've lived in so. Cal my whole life... and im going to chicago...</p>
<p>Everyone who lives in Michigan complains about the Michigan weather; last week, it was about 90-95 all week, and now this week, it's been about 70 the whole time.</p>
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<p>We had some sweet blizzards in Boston this winter. And they didn't even cancel school! (That was actually the thing that took the most adjusting for me going from high school in Ohio to college in Boston -- it gets just as cold, and Boston is even snowier, but there are no snow days in college.)</p>
<p>we got a snowday at BU :) My first college snowday ever in 5 years... but then again 3 feet of snow with nowhere to put it will do that I guess, heh.</p>
<p>So compared to Connecticut, Boston, NYC, or Colorado, how bad is the snow in upstate New York? (like Syracuse and Ithaca?) I'm coming from California, so although I don't live with snow, I do like it, and I love cold weather. It's just that my mom told me to take two schools off my list because she said there is snow from October through May in upstate New York. She also told me to take OCU off my list because of tornadoes.</p>
<p>In Michigan at least, it's pretty rare for tornadoes to occur any time earlier than June; the earliest (and only) tornado this year occurred on June 5, and it was an F0. Even if your school year goes into June, most likely you won't see a tornado.</p>
<p>In my opinion, not going to a certain school because of the possibility of tornadoes is like not going to a school in California because of the possibility of an earthquake.</p>
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<p>Agreed. And it's a sign that your mom needs to take a deep breath.</p>
<p>But stele32, doesn't Oklahoma have tons of tornadoes, all year round? I thought it was like the tornado capital of the country.</p>
<p>Tornadoes can occur anywhere any time.</p>
<p>An edition of California Climate Watch (February 2005) states, "What some may not know is that tornado frequency per unit area per time in the Los Angeles Basin is higher than the state of Oklahoma (1). In the Los Angeles Basin, for the period of 1950-1992, there were 3.19 tornadoes per square kilometer per year. In the state of Oklahoma, there were 2.86 tornadoes per square kilometer per year for the same period."</p>
<p>It sounds like you shouldn't go to school in LA because of earthquakes AND tornadoes!</p>
<p>what about 5 earthquakes in like 2 weeks in california...
heh, i felt one that shook my house like crazy.</p>
<p>Big earthquakes are pretty rare in California, and it's unlikely you'll feel any unless it's a big quake or if you live on a fault line.</p>
<p>And no one has addressed the cold weather in upstate New York. How bad is it?</p>
<p>Tornadoes are not common like the Great Plains in S. Indiana (I live in Louisville, KY), but they happen from April to the end of June. S. Indiana always gets the worst storms. When the storms from Indiana cross the river, they normally weaken and there is buttload of rain on the KY side of the Ohio.</p>
<p>i live on the coast in mississippi and am used to the hurricanes, but last summer i went to governors school at mississippi university for women in north mississippi... (i am now going there in the fall) on my first tour of the campus, i was shown the big field where the multi billion dollar fitness center USED to be... as well as dorms torn apart by tornado damage... twas quite scary. but nonetheless... i guess it's a risk i am going to take... people there told me that when the tornado was coming there were warnings and everyone was safe. however, it was lucky that no one was currently living in the dorm that was completely destroyed... anyone in tornado have any advice for me?</p>
<p>on the lighter side... my mom (being the expert that she is) told me that if i heard a train in the middle of the night that it meant there was a tornado and to get to the bottom floor... well on my first night of governors school... i hear a train!! i FREAK OUT!! look out the window to find that the particular dorm i was staying in was overlooking a train track and it was a real train... lol... needless to say i will be living in a dorm on the complete other side of campus. ;)</p>
<p>LOL...</p>
<p>I go to school in Arlington, Texas (which also happens to be in tornado alley). I'm from Houston so I've had my fair share of hurricane experiences (I missed Tropical Storm Allison though!!!), but I've always had this weird fear of tornados even though up until this year I had never been in one. Then, back in April, I was sitting in my dorm room in late afternoon when all of a sudden I hear this siren. Now I have no idea what this is and I honestly thought it was an alarm clock. So when it didn't go off I went out to the lounge to this BIG window we have (I know... BRILLIANT MOVE) and that's when I noticed it was hailing. Thankfully one of my friends alerted me that the siren meant a tornado was coming. So me being me I flipped out and was running down the stairs (to get to the bottom floor) when I remembered that my cat was upstairs in my dorm room. (Yes, I actually kept my kitten with me an entire semester with no R.A. or Hall Advisor finding out). So I go running back up the stairs to get my kitten (and I'm still not wearing shoes...) and I grabbed my cell phone and called my dad. All I could get out was that there was a tornado coming and then of course we got disconnected. </p>
<p>The tornado hit campus but it was only an F1, so it knocked over its fair share of street signs and tree branches and broke a couple of windows but that was pretty much it.</p>
<p>My poor dad is still recovering to this day. I don't know who had it worse... me or him.</p>
<p>And that would be my sever weather story for you'll.</p>
<p>FL may seem like it gets tons of hurricanes, but it's not like living in Cuba or those other little islands. I lived in a 30 year old mobile home for ten years in northern Broward county. We just moved 8 months ago (right after last year's hurricanes tore through, our a/c crapped out for the 3rd time in three years), and the thing is still standing...30 years.</p>
<p>Yes, they can be very destructive, but we never see the type flooding that the states on the Gulf of Mexico see. I'm surprised that the person in LA mentioned FL...it always seems like the canes sweep past us right towards you. I guess it has a lot to do with perspective.</p>
<p>I am very worried about winters in upstate NY. I'm going off to Wells College in 6 weeks (that's ~30 miles up the lake from Ithaca). Is it as bad as Chicago has been described?</p>
<p>Frostburg State University in Maryland is really really cold. Its in the mountains a little below PA and a little near WV. I applied and was accepted, but each time I visited the school, in May once, it was freezing. Its always snowing and always cold there is no such thing as summer. The only plus is that it causes them to party and drink all the time. But they own the small town and there is a beer factory on campus. Its like the college on the movie Rules of Sttraction times 10 with more snow and more sex and disease. I think the snow would dissuade me from going to class.</p>
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Well, being from Missouri, I'm used to them. 95% of the time, when the tornado sirens go off/there's a tornado warning, nothing's gonna happen. First off, most tornado warnings are called because the radar "indicated" a tornado, or even just "strong rotation". Only part of the time is a tornado warning called becasue an actual tornado has been sighted. If there is a warning, they usually give the path of it too, so listen for your town before you freak out, Also, in some places (St. Louis County, where I live (until August!!) being one of those places), the sirens are activated if there is a tornado headed for ANY town in the county. If I'm here in west county, and a tornado is headed for some part of south county, 45 minutes away, my sirens go off! I'm not affected, yet the sirens go off anyway. In my family, when the sirens/weather radio go off, we usually turn on the TV and find out where it's headed before running to the basement. If a tornado is near enough that we're truly in immediate danger, the sotrm will be strong enough that we'll know!</p>
<p>So, basically, if threre's some nasty weather, pay attention to tv/radio, if you can. If the sriens go off, get ready to find shelter, but check things out (in a timely manner, of course) before you start praying!</p>
<p>Some parts of the year the sirens will go off 3, 4, or 5 days a week (at least here in STL...not this year, for some reason). But I've only really experienced one tornado, and I've never seen one. Last year, twoards the end of the school day, it really dark out. I was inside a sound proof practice room with a friend, and it started raining so hard that we heard it inside. We went to look out the window, and it started hailing. So we took a walk twoards the lobby of the building, which opens into a covered breezeway. The wind picked up so much that leaves and tree branches were flying through the breezeway--it looked like green rain. The doors (pretty heavy wood) start opening and closing, so they hearded us to the basement. Once there, the power flickered, fire alarm went off a few times, wind howeled and hail crackled, and in 5 minutes, it was over. So we went upstairs. No one was hurt, but there was damage, as the fire department pulled into the library parking lot. Lots of totaled cars, all the skylights broke (it rained in the library), water blew in the doors and saturated carpeting, the basements, field house, and athletic center (somehow even part of the second floor) flooded about an inch deep, the trees were bare, signs bent, windows broken, screens blown off, and the roads around campus impassible....oh and a really really erie fog...thickest i've ev'er sween. Pretty scary when it hapened, but the next day things were back to normal.</p>