[wrencher]

Weather people have really become hysterical over the years. Weather happens, sometimes ugly and with death. Now these media clowns use such events to gin up a scare and boost their ratings. Every time there’s an earthquake they’re on to the tsunami warnings now also, most certainly rooting for another (once in a lifetime) big one.

In the end it’s just tornado season this year, like every other year.

[pfflier]

So true. The weather talking heads need to make each event "the worst ever" or you won't watch them otherwise.

Down in Altus, where I graduated from high school too many years ago, this time of the year was when you got to socialize with your neighbors in the fraidy hole. A really good neighbor would bring a bottle of Jack with him.

[Old Yeller]

Tornado season is the weatherman’s Viagra.

[stormer]

What an idiotic statement. In 2012 natural disasters cost this nation over 160 billion dollars and claimed tens of thousands of lives globally. The single most important thing a person can do to protect lives and property is to BE PREPARED. Warning people of impending or potential danger isn’t hysteria or hype, it is fundamental to disaster preparation.