#324queer21

My questgivers Magnus and Zaphrina

Oh wow! These are wonderful quest givers! I want to give them all the fusses they want

Everywhere I've lived (in IN) they've only gone off for warnings, was it different in your home town?

yeah, in my hometown they go off for tornado watches, and when I was in high school (I think?), they started sounding them for severe thunderstorm warnings with high wind speeds/super dangerous conditions.  I’m personally not a fan of the “going off for severe thunderstorms” bc it could encourage a “boy who cried wolf” situation imo, but I do like the “going off for tornado watches”.

I think it makes a lot of sense; tornadoes can develop fast in Iowa, since it’s in tornado alley, whereas Wisconsin (where I am currently living) and Indiana, to the best of my knowledge, aren’t typically included in tornado alley.  I mean, tornadoes can develop anywhere, esp in the Midwest, but the locations prone to tornadoes would probably have more precautions.

when the sirens don’t go off, people die.  that literally happened once when I was in high school.  there was a severe thunderstorm that didn’t develop into a tornado until it reached my hometown, and someone died.  the sirens didn’t go off (there was a computer error, was what I heard), and people didn’t know the thunderstorm was severe enough to produce a tornado, and someone got killed.  I remember hearing that there had been a tornado, and thinking “yeah, the weather looked like it, but the sirens didn’t go off; I thought it was just a normal thunderstorm”.  

I looked up that tornado, and yeah, it was a severe thunderstorm literally until it reached my hometown, where it first touched down and killed a guy.  if the sirens had gone off when the severe thunderstorm was first spotted in the county, maybe that person could have survived.

What is this from? I’m just distracted bc lao shi is teacher in Mandarin. (Well, can be depending on the tones.)

it’s the name of the protag’s grandfather in American Dragon: Jake Long.

I assume it was supposed to be a mu but the symbol got messed up?