tornado sirens

Mayors discuss plans for tornado preparation
BY KATRINA CORNWELL Staff (Tennessean) • May 7, 2008

Deadly tornadoes – killing 15 people in just two years in Sumner County – have officials talking about the best way to notify the public and save lives when severe weather strikes.

Hey, you know how some talented bloggers carefully craft each blog entry as if it were a column and each piece is a feature that can stand alone and be enjoyed time and again?

I'm not one of them.

I thought you should know that.

This morning as weather stations were specifically saying that there was a "thunderstorm watch, but no tornado watch" Vanderbilt tornado sirens sounded and VU students received text messages that a tornado was on the way.

I was at work on Tuesday night when the weather was turning bad and yes it did get bad around2am with the rain coming down sideways and the wind blowing so hard that the trash cans outside the bowling center blew into the parking lot. I know from the news repports earlier in the night that the cities of Franklin and Nashville had their tornado sirens going off during the first wave of storms. I want to ask our city officals why dont we have sirens here in our city?

by Nicole McIntyre
Let's just say that yesterday was "exciting" on a variety of levels:

Warner Music Group reported its Q1 earnings today. Revenues were up 7% year over year, but operating income was down 45% and EPS was -$0.11.

We were lucky last night in Neliganville.

Took shelter in the basement once with the family and Sheriff Itchy.

Note from Barb N: Sheriff Itchy hates storms, by the way. Not that he's afraid of them, because he's not. He just hates them.

Got up at midnight and two a.m. when tornado sirens cranked up, but all in all we came through unscathed and for that we are grateful.

As news of the damage came through it seemed so surrreal, and our thoughts and prayers go out

I hardly ever remember my dreams. And if I'm reading someone's blog and they start talking about a dream, I go on about my merry way without reading.

However, two nights ago I had a major tornado dream. The sky looked like the sky toward the end of the Wizard of Oz, except instead of flying monkeys, the sky was full of tornadoes of all sizes. And I was running from shelter to ditch with several folks, playing dodge the next twister.