Thomas;
I Live in Central Illinois, U.S.A. our weather comes out of Kansas down thru Iowa, then thru the central part of the state, then into Indiana. We basically have 3 zones here North, Central, and South. Unfortunately our county gets more tornados than any other in the state. But for some reason they rarely ever hit a city. The belt in Texas starts there and moves thru the South to if I'm not mistaken almost the Carolinas. Texas gets more than we do, and they seem to hit a lot of metropolitan areas there. I was brought up with the story that our towns won't get hit because generations ago Native Americans told the settlers where to settle, and there is a lot of relics from their village just on the edge of town and we have hits all around town and wind damage but the town itself has never been directly hit, so there maybe truth to the story. We have alot of flooding every year and Flash Flood Warnings just come with the season also. We all look forward to Spring but we also know what comes with that. In recent years things have been quite mild, and we have not had many tornados at all, it sounds like we are trading our weather with the people of Europe! I can really empathize with their situation! At least here people have been used to it for generations. People from overseas who move here have told me they think we have very dangerous plants and weather and they get real freaked when people die from it. So I really hope the Czech people come out OK. Strange the other day I was reading of a town a couple hundred miles west of here was hit and the whole town was damaged except for a church built by Czech settlers a hundred years ago, it's one of the oldest churches in the state and still has a Czech name. Rob: On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 01:13:25 -0400 (EDT) > From: Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: more about floods > X-Mailer: NOS-BOX 2.05 > > > Cristian; > > I live here in what they call tornado alley. I and > > others have seen as many as 7 funnel clouds at onetime > > together. I have seen barns, houses, and machine sheds > > moved or strewn for miles. Last year we followed a large > > Rob, > > Where are you located? Somewhere in the USA? Texas, Oklahoma and Florida come > to mind as leading tornado states, Kansas too. > > Nice to see the Arachne list is back! >
