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Originally Posted by kennyc
Maybe I'll join up with a tornado chaser group....
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I did that long before it was popular. My dad and his brother would toss us 5 cousins into the back of the pickup and take off after the tornadoes. No helmets, no roof, no seatbelts, but somehow we survived.
My sister was the baby of the group, only 4 or 5 years old. Those occasions and another time when the tornado caught us outside are what I blame for her pathological fear of storms.
I've described before that she and I would drive out into storms when she got out of school. She was so incapacitated by storms that I worried that she would die in a wreck on the freeway if a storm hit while she was driving to work. So I would drive into a storm, pull safely off the road, and help her work through her terrors. We still call each other if she is in a storm, even at home, because it helps her handle it if I can keep her distracted until it is over.