#ustornadoes

If we're honest, when we look at the picture above, most of us can say we take our British weather for granted.

It rained almost all day and even snowed at one point and I know that it annoyed me. Judging by the tweets from different people it annoyed them too.

We complain about the weather all the time, but at least it's still possible to go home, get dry and use electricity. We don't get tornadoes that rip through the town and flatten it.

I'm always hearing about tornadoes that are tearing through southern U.S.A states, destroying their wooden houses and reducing villages to rubble.

Why don't they build their houses from something stronger? Re-enforce them? I know it's probably expensive, but at least they wouldn't have to re-build them so often.

These ‘tornado alley’ occupants, so traditional and patriotic with their timber roofs and walls..

We are pretty lucky to be living here, bland old England, with its occasional sunny day, but reliably rainy forecast.