Okay, so it's 2:15 AM where I am. And I've got physics at 9 tomorrow. And a chemistry test. AND a Japanese test.

Yet here I am in the downstairs hallway for the SECOND time tonight because stupid tornado sirens are going off.

So yeah, I'm half-asleep and trying to kill time. Oh yeah, and I'm really pissed at the weather but I'm too sleepy to muster those emotions in RL, so I'm putting them here instead.

Mawww... *pats*

The weather hates me too. *nods*... I was supposed to go out tonight, and BAM! So much rain. *cries*.

I can only hope it's not still there at 6am, when I have to go to work..

Aww. Rain isn't that bad. I like the rain. But I can understand you being pissed off with the tornado sirens, Shadow. I live in the Northeast...so I don't have them, but if they sound anything like the fire warning siren that I can hear TWO BOROUGHS OVER [even though I live in the central county, meh.], you have all of my God given sympathy.

I live on university residences, so I get the building alarms going off when stupid staff can't work their alarm codes. It's not that difficult, people - I know, I used to have one. Plus the smoke alarms go off at random, for no apparent reason. Also in the middle of a bad part of the city - so plenty of sirens day in day out.

... I just don't hear them anymore. Which is probably a bad thing if my smoke alarm goes off for real...

I'd say tornado sirens aren't as bad as fire alarms, cuz at least you're wasting time inside instead of standing across the street in your PJs freezing your butt off. You can barely hear them, though, so instead of the screeching alarm you get RAs pounding on your door. Everyone is okay though. No damage.

Living down South all my life, I'm pretty used to tornado sirens. I just hate when they go off when I have tests in the morning! I got an A on the chem exam, though.

Thanks for your sympathy. We can all bemoan the complications of dorm life together. (happy)

Oh dear. I'd be terrified if I went somewhere that had tornado alarms. I'd be so scared. Worst I've had is when people were smoking in the toilets and kept setting off the alarms.

No tornados where I live. They all hit further north east then me.

:p Shadow, I mean the alarms that suburbs use to alert their volunteer fire departments. They all sound like air raid sirens. I sit there and on the rare occasion that they go off, I'm waiting for a Chinese MiG-19 to fly over my house. o.O

I don't think everyone understands how bad those storms were last night. They spotted over 70 tornadoes overall, and are saying at least 50 people have died. One tornado took down a college dorm in Tennessee that was solid brick. These weren't just storms, but killer storms. Although as soon as they get to Georgia..they die...and we don't get the rain we need AGAIN!

Good point Origin - tornado sirens do sound like raid alarms....and I think they're probably the same thing technically.

Any kind of mass alert siren does. In my case it's the -insert borough name- VDF ready-up siren. It only goes off like 5 times a year, mainly during summer. I keep waiting to see Chinese marked MiGs to fly overhead. The constant WOOOOwoooooWOOOOOwoooooWOOOO creeps me out.

Yeah, it was pretty bad. My dad was stuck at work because a tornado was spotted right near his job. That was kinda scary. They were showing home video of the storms that hit Memphis all the way over where I go to school. That was wierd, thinking, "Oh my gosh, I know where that Wal-Greens is!" The Sears at one of the malls was hit. Wasn't it Union University whose dorm was hit? I feel badly for the students there.

Storms and tornadic activity are a given 'round here. I just wish they weren't in the middle of the night. Then again, there weren't as many people on the road then, so perhaps it was better they came when they did.

Oh my gosh! I've been hearing the air raid alarms for three years and I never really realised. In Lincoln (where my old school is) the fire alarm is like that.

I'm so glad I don't have to worry about any of that. We get no tornadoes, no hurricanes, the occasional earthquake and that's it.