Twisters or Tornadoes?
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Which is it?
I know they are they same thing, but almost every news report I read uses both names and keeps alternating their use. For instance..
The twister touched down near town. People hide from the tornado. Twister damage was extensive, but those in their basements were safe from the tornado..
I know there are worse things to worry about, like the lives being effected, but the use of both terms in the same news stories drives me nuts!
Am I weird or what?
I know they are they same thing, but almost every news report I read uses both names and keeps alternating their use. For instance..
The twister touched down near town. People hide from the tornado. Twister damage was extensive, but those in their basements were safe from the tornado..
I know there are worse things to worry about, like the lives being effected, but the use of both terms in the same news stories drives me nuts!
Am I weird or what?
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Hurricane or Cyclone
I get your confusion
But yeah, if you are going to talk about something, stick with one name or the other.
Yes, you are right, I don't think its called a cyclone too often in US
Partly sunny, chance of rain
or
Partly cloudy, chance of sun
I think they just make stuff up for the weather. I should have been a weatherman, its expected that you will be wrong a lot.
1. That God-awful shitty movie that came out in the mid-90's (Phillip Seymor Hoffman, holla!)
2. 1800's prospectors.
Reporters should get their stuff together and stick with one term.
*No, no one plays the home game any more.
CEWSS high alert means the coonhound is attempting to fold her 50 pounds into a 12"x16" bin in the front hall coat nook. Medium Alert is shaking and and unwilling to move from the guest room bed, Low Alert is squeezing herself next to you, shaking.
And... here comes the lightening. If it's as bad as they say it will be, we could even see CEWSS Impending Catastrophe, which is heralded by coonhound's sudden release of various bodily fluids.
Pardon me while I go provide some cuddling and a fistful of string cheese.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwjDELYIEmE
that movie signaled the end of me going to a theater unless absolutely necessary...i'm still pissed i paid 10 bucks to see that
sorry!
If your coon hound is anything like my labrador you're going to regret this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWN_AL9vrbc
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yes :P
then again....
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Ouch.
Miss Coonhound is still cowering there, but I am occasionally able to lure her out with Milk Bones. The storms seem to have passed for the moment, so I suspect she'll eventually unfold herself and join the rest of the group. There's no moving her until she's good and ready though _ I speak from experience.