Safe to assume it didn't take out your friend?

Correct. She and her family were actually in town at her grandparents' place at the time, so they were all fine. They came home to nothing but a foundation, though.

I actually didn't know her at the time - just heard the stories when we became friends in high school.

Glad all it is just a bad memory for them then. someone was looking out for them obviously.

Gotta love the internet. It was apparently the same night as the Andover tornado:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover...rnado_Outbreak

W of Arkansas City to NW of Cambridge
25 miles
1 death - Tornado passed Arkansas City to the west, and then moved between the communities of Strother Field and Hackney. Many suburban homes were completely destroyed, and one woman was killed in her home.

Why? Does that make the tornado turn away? Or does her telling you something you can see out your own window somehow make it different in any way? I guess sirens going off aren't as important as Katie's many irrelevant updates heh?

Maybe it's just me but I'd like to know about the tornado before it is close enough I can see it.

Ok fair enough. But after the first 30 secs of them telling you where the tornado is WTF else do you need to know? How is solid, wall-wall coverage making it any better? If you can't see it outside your window then I can't see why you need to sit in front of your tv for 3 hours watching weather people talk about something that is not around you? And if you could see outside your window I doubt you would be watching TV.

Well chances are the tornado is in your area if you don't have any power, thus not having to worry about the annoying Katie Horner.

LMAO LA has it's car chases on TV constantly, and KC has it's Katie on TV constantly

Speaking of crying wolf, there is nothing better than getting woke up every 30 minutes by the weather radio for thuderstorm watches in Harrisonville or flash flooding in Saint Jo.

The weather radio usually gets shut off quicker than the alarm clock gets snoozed. For the question of "what if", that question got answered in the first week of May, as our neighborhood got hit by a tornado without any sirens or weather radio tornado warnings.

that is what i don't get. tornadoes, ok. do coverage until they go away.

thunderstorms, 'damaging wind', flash flooding - put that thing on in the corner of the screen. do i need to see a rundown of minute by minute where a thunderstorm is or some news dork standing outside in a raincoat telling us it's raining?

Their broadcast covers a larger area than just your house.

WTF is the difference? Does someone telling you about a tornado for 3 hours make anything different if they did it in 30 secs?

If you need to wall-wall coverage to see if your ass is in trouble you are already phocked.

What is so ****ing amazing is some of you seem to have trouble understanding that storms in the Spring\Summer in Tornado Alley produce bad weather! That is until someone comes on the TV with 15 radars of the same ****ing thing and repeat themselves more than the Fox News Channel telling you torndaoes in Ks\Mo\Ok are very probable when it is Spring\Summer and it is cloudy and stormy looking in the sky.

Astounding even!

Here's your sign.......http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=186014

I'm not up on what counties Saint Joe and Harrisonville are in but you can program codes into most weather radios so they only activate for a certain county. That way you don't haveta listen to all the other info going out over them.

I can hook you up with your counties SAME number if you need.