<p>First Joplin, MO now Springfield, MA. </p>
<p>:/</p>
<p>One unconfirmed one hit my boyfriend’s city here in Michigan. Lost part of his house. It’s the worst tornado season on record and it’s not over yet :(.</p>
<p>Stay safe everyone.</p>
<p>There is a REASON that the area is called Tornado Alley, I lived in Kansas for some time and the threat is always just there. Not saying that it isn’t worse then normal but its part of living in that area. People live around the Gulf of Mexico despite the hurricanes that pass through almost every year and people live in California where they constantly have earthquakes…its just the way the world is.</p>
<p>^ Yes, but a lot of the tornadoes are occuring in places where they don’t normally happen. Michigan and Mass. are not part of Tornado Alley, and it’s fairly rare to have destructive tornados in either place.</p>
<p>It’s pretty weird. It kinda gets me that not all of them are even being reported- we had one in Huntsville that knocked down our power lines and it wasn’t even on the news.</p>
<p>the city i go to school (st. louis, mo), tornado hits airport around late april.
the city i live in (in kansas), tornado touchdown about 2 miles from my house, a little more than a week ago.
the town i’m doing research in for the summer, was significantly damaged by a tornado around late april and is still recovering.</p>
<p>i’m getting a little paranoid.</p>
<p>it’s just the disaster cycle. no crazy hurricanes recently so tornadoes to replace</p>
<p>PrincessMahina - you live in HUNTSVILLE now? how did you get down there from hawaii?</p>
<p>Two words: La Nina.</p>
<p>We had 3 smaller ones in LaGrange Georgia, about an hour and a half southwest of Atlanta, but this wasn’t reported as the damage was mainly to trees and houses on the outskirts of town. However, my girlfriend lives in Neosho, about 20 minutes from Joplin and she confirms the devastation was massive (see “Joplin looks worse than Tuscaloosa”). And then there’s obviously the tornado in Tuscaloosa… Sheesh, I think God’s mad at the USA for not giving Bin Laden a fair trial…</p>
<p>Bad luck or the beginning effects of climate change.</p>
<p>We even had a tornado touch down all the way up here near Cleveland</p>
<p>climate change producing more destructive storms?</p>
<p>Hundreds of tornados hit every year…</p>
<p>The rapture!</p>
<p>But seriously, there were a few tornadoes near me in Northern California recently. Tornadoes!? They were playing the radio at grad night and the tornado warning went off; I’ve never heard that in my life.</p>
<p>We got some bad ones in Michigan last summer, too, remember the Dundee tornado, romani? It tore down a school just in time for graduation and their ceremony had to move to Eastern.</p>
<p>We’ve actually had surprisingly few storms so far in this neck of the woods, but that storm we just had was a doozy. It looked like it split in half just in time to miss here and went to the north and to the south.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Closed that water park :(.</p>
<p>I think that might have been right around when all those bad storms came through Washtenaw county, I think there was a tornado in Manchester but thankfully none got any closer. I was stuck in a basement at Eastern the whole night, and not one person in the entire dorm had been smart enough to have a flash light.</p>
<p>Yeah the Dundee storm damaged the roof of Cabela’s</p>
<p>I got the tornado warning email on my phine through Umich. I was pretty happy I was home haha</p>