Watch the Weather Change

So it has been a while since I have posted anything. I have not really had much to say lately. Well, I sort of do now. I'm sure everyone in the country is aware of the massive string of tornadoes that have been bombarding the Midwest over the past week. Well today or as it is now yesterday, the weather made it's way to Indiana.

But to clarify, tornadoes are sort of treated like a joke in Indiana quite a bit. They form a lot here but they usually don't do much but every now and again a nasty one comes along and really mucks up the works.
Today there were two that completely wiped out two towns. One for each tornado. In all truth according to the current weather reports, there were total of 42 tornadoes on the ground between 2 and 5 pm.

So this is how it started from my perspective. I went to lunch break shortly after 2 and went out to my car to get a little sleep. A common practice for me since I stay up all night quite a bit. About 10 minutes into my lunch the tornado sirens went off. It was hailing and raining really bad but I thought nothing of it. After all this is Indiana. Bad weather just sort of comes with the territory. This is a state that has been known to have snow, ice, rain, thunder, lighting, tornadoes, and sunshine all within the same 24 hour time period.

I went back inside after the sirens started sounding just to see if everyone working knew what was going on. They did. I hung out for about 10 minutes and got word that a tornado south of my location was heading northeast.

Now I grew up in a family of storm chasers so I knew since it was heading northeast, it would just pass the town I was in right on by and went back to my car. It was not until I got home that I found the full extent of what happened. Two towns in Indiana were wiped out today in the Southern portion of the state.

So it would appear that the thing we generally treat with a bit of humor here came and bit us on the ass today!
It's not to say we think tornadoes are funny, but we don't generally view them as a threat because they don't amount to much in Indiana other than something that on occasion knocks over a few trees and downs some power lines.

That having been said, Indiana did not really have much of a winter this year. February which is usually our coldest month felt like early spring. And we only got snow twice which was not much. That is odd because Indiana can typically get blizzard like conditions 5 to 10 times in one winter.

So my general thought is we are going to get one hell of a tornado season. After today, it would appear it also started a few weeks earlier than usual.

But also after today, I think Indiana is probably going to see one of it's worst tornado seasons in recent history.

Only time will tell.