"Pink is the navy blue of India"—Diana Vreeland

Bob Marley died of melanoma.

I know! they are so much better at pinpointing when and where. I don't want to get complacent, though, and start believing that the "highest risk area" will be the only danger area. Wasn't that a slight risk or moderate risk day on May 19 when that one hit Moore?

I think there are a lot of recent transplants to Oklahoma City (and Texas as well...see the post from the other day about everyone moving to Texas). I heard on This American Life that Oklahoma City had gotten really good at luring jobs to their city, and that's why there may have been so many tornado newbies when all…

You forgot one factor:

Can you remember a time, ever, when there were THIS many for this many days in one area? I live in KC and have lived in Texas and the Southeast and I cannot remember a SIX-DAY OUTBREAK ever! One-day outbreaks were almost like ten-year or twenty-year events...or even less...but since 2011 every time there's a risk…

This happened in Wichita Falls in 1979. It hit a mall, and the people who got killed were the ones who rushed to their cars instead of hunkering down in the center of the mall. The part of the mall it damaged was one of the anchor stores on the end, not the center (reinforced concrete, interior room or hallway, …

That's what I was thinking, too. Spotters are still used, and they are not the same as storm chasers. Before storm chasing got to be such a big thing, spotters would be activated by NOAA and I think before cell phones they were licensed ham radio operators. They would go and park on the high points on the…

Is that a steel I-beam that fell down? Or do you think it's a wooden box beam looking thing made of wood? Why would a steel I-beam be in the ceiling of a house? I have two steel I-beams running across my basement ceiling, which I always planned to get under if a tornado hit, but I sure wouldn't like to be brained…

Tell someone where you are before it hits. That's what I and my friend do. We live in different parts of town and tell each other where we are so the other one can tell the first responders. I don't want them wasting time digging through rubble that no one's buried in, cause I usually go to a big sturdy building…

I've seen shorts at a funeral in KC.

No, KC claims the title of worst-dressed city and we're not giving it up. We worked for it!

I agree; there's a whole essay on that. "Two Young Men who Went West" by Tom Wolfe.

If I could email you I would, to keep this private...i'll just make this quick....here's what I do when I know it's going to be one of those outbreaks... I check into a big, sturdy hotel with interior hallways, the big reinforced concrete kind...hopefully one with a basement. It's totally worth the money to me. …

Sticky was the least of my problems last night! I was hunkered down in the middle of the tornado outbreak (but thankfully, it missed us)

No, I meant your advice is valuable and a lot of people could use it!

You should write a book.

But Silver Linings Playbook didn't do that. Maybe you are mixing up the Incel guy with what Silver Linings Playbook said.

If it helps any, I know plenty of people who had that aspect of life all come together for them later in life. I knew a guy with a lot of great qualities, and a lot to offer, who just clammed up and became so quiet around women it was painful to see. He joined an activity for which he had a passion and immediately…

I've been wondering if he's sick.