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It's storm weather awareness week, so they've been running the alarms at random times here outside of Minneapolis. Thankfully, each town does it at different times, and when it's a real alarm we get it from all directions, so it's easy to tell the difference.
Yeah, if they all went off at once, I'd have a minor panic attack. We live in the burbs on the county border, and there are 3 town centers almost equidistant from us; and another 2 within hearing distance. When it's real, they all go off, from all directions, but the towns don't synchronize their tests except for the weekly one, and it's obvious when it's just a random township test.
We have a perfect tornado room: no windows, in the basement, but the first time we had one we'd just moved here from Pennsylvania. We have two cats and with all of the alarms I spent a dozen minutes chasing one down, getting it into the room with my wife, then going for the other... and the first time, the first cat escaped while I was coming in with the second so I had to go back out and capture it again. And then, when we're all comfortably settled in the room, my wife casually says, "you know, you really should go get my purse so we have credit cards." So out I go again, up two floors to find the purse. By then, it looked like Wizard of Oz outside the windows, like nothing I'd ever seen: no visibility, and green. I've been in hurricanes before, and as terrifying as they are, they've hit nothing on tornados for sheer weird.
Anyway, the tornado passed us by, no damage to the family or property, but I'm less eager to experience another one than I used to be.