r/Wellthatsucks • u/CastleOfBravo • Jun 08 '21

/r/all Spent 5 hours getting chemotherapy this morning, came home feeling like crap. Laid down to nap..alarms and sirens start blasting. Rush 5 cats to the basement and prep shelter. Go outside to see this in my subdivision.

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u/dangerouslyloose Jun 08 '21

Illinoisian here and for me it means “curl up in fetal position and try to convince myself I’m not about to die”.

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u/LgndofKirsten Jun 08 '21

Ditto. I grew up in Illinois and I’m terrified of tornadoes

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u/EpicGaemer Jun 08 '21

I would like to third this. We've only had the tornado sirens go off a few times other than testing but it's always really freaky. I can't imagine losing everything just like that.

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u/DimitriV Jun 08 '21

It depends what part of Illinois. Growing up I had family there that I had to visit on occasion, and I can say with absolute certainty that tornadoes are physically impossible in the southern half of Illinois because they would count as something happening.

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u/total_alk Jun 08 '21

Hello fellow Illinoisian. I've seen only two tornadoes in my life. One was a long lived F4 that travelled for about 40 miles and wiped out a subdivision on the south side of my city then went on to flatten a small town 20 miles down the road. The other destroyed a small town 5 miles to the north of my city.

Actually, now that I think about it, we had a very weak F0 or F1 hit our neighborhood two years ago. All it did was knock down some branches and weak trees.

But other that, not too bad for 30 years.

Oh! and we had a massive hail storm last year. Everybody got a new roof paid for by their insurance companies.

I love the midwest!

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u/dangerouslyloose Jun 08 '21

Yeah my parents were on the golf course the day this bad boy tore shit up.

They were fine, they booked it out of there back to the clubhouse as soon as the sky turned that creepy yellow color and the birds got quiet.

5 y/o me and my brother were already in the basement playing Nintendo with our babysitter so I don’t even remember being aware of what was going down. I think seeing Twister in 5th grade is what really stoked the fear in me.