Tornadoes scare me like nothing else. Having chosen to move to the Midwest for school from the Northeast, I can take anything aside from a tornado. Give me a hurricane, an earthquake, a blizzard, or basically anything but a tornado and I'll get a little twitchy but nothing on the level of absolute terror I feel at the slightest mention of a tornado. Like maconmagnolia (I think?) I also go to school in Missouri and I'm still shocked at how buildings don't have basements/storm shelters and that it was never once covered exactly what to do during a tornado watch/warnig/emergency. None of the dorms have basements, though some of the classrooms do, and the only one time anyone has ever actively encouraged a response to the tornado sirens was when it was a student forcibly herded about 30 others into the basement of a building when the warnings went off during an evening club meeting. We're lucky we haven't been hit yet (though north St. Louis county was during once this past semester), though I'm honestly terrified as this system continues moving toward school. I know so many people with apartment leases who are staying there or who are on campus taking classes for the summer and I'm going to be glued to the news/internet hoping they're okay over the next 48 hours.
Prayers for everyone in Oklahoma and everyone else in the path of this massive storm system
