It Will Never Happen To Me!

I'm not going to say where I was at or who I was talking to yesterday but this comes up all of the time. Tornado safety? Humbug! We've had these tornado drills every year for years and it is the same ole thing. Head for shelter. Wait 15 minutes. Then go back to work. Nothing has ever happened to us. What's the big deal? Then my boss starts hasseling me because he thinks that I'm wasting time. I've decided not to elaborate on this subject. Instead, I'll let history tell the story. Find an old newspaper from April 9th, 1999 and read about the F4 Tornado that tore through Blue Ash, Ohio. Look it up on Google or in a Cincinnati newspaper archives. See if you can find out about the store manager going to work at 5 a.m. that morning on his way to open up a Bob Evans Resturant. Find out about the couple living across from the high school, in the path of the tornado, who either didn't hear the sirens or ignored the sirens,(on the roof of the school across the street). Don't tell me it can't happen to you because it can. Story after story appears about people who were out driving in this area and either were not listening to their car radios or just thought that: "It couldn't happen to them". I'm not making fun of these folks. It is just sad that people still do not take tornados seriously in this country.