Twisted Twisters, or: Breaking Wind
Some say the best advice when it comes to tornadoes is to keep your insurance paid up and update your will. My advice is just as simple: At the beginning of March, dig a big […]
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Breaking Winds With Twisted Twisters
This week is Severe Weather Preparedness Week. Here are some useful safety tips from actual experts: https://www.in.gov/dhs/get-prepared/nature-safety/severe-weather-preparedness/ Some say the best advice you can give when it comes to tornadoes is to keep your […]
A Dark and Seriously Stormy Night
I complain about winter weather a lot, so maybe it’s time to complain about something else: Spring weather. Yes, spring arrived, kind of, like the proverbial lion. The last […]
Twister Tales Make Scary Stories
The Governor of Indiana proclaimed March 13-19 to be Tornado Preparedness Week. He used to call it Tornado Awareness Week, but a conspiracy theory emerged that without awareness we might not have noticed tornadoes in […]
Tornado Season–Twisted Twisters, or: Breaking Winds
Some say the best advice you can give people when it comes to tornadoes is to keep your insurance paid up and update your will. I prefer to be a little more optimistic. Still, my […]
Bites, and Sniffles, and Other Joys of Spring
Spring makes me giddy, dizzy, my heart skips—or possibly, it’s my allergies. There’s no such thing as the perfect time of the year. Having said that, a bad day in summer is better than a […]
It Will Be A Dark And Stormy Night
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK I’ve been complaining about winter weather in a lot of my columns, so I thought maybe it was time to complain about something else: Spring weather. Yes, spring […]
Six-Pack Abs Don’t Come in a Tube
Late night TV offers a myriad of products that usually target the over 65 crowd. I don’t know why this age group is awake at this time, but it seems to be their peak hours. […]
Things That Make Me Wonder How We Ever Beat the British
On the BBC News report a reporter was interviewing an individual named Chad who, on his way home from work, decided to film a rather large and destructive tornado in Indiana. The reporter who seem […]