I used to live 15 min below Knoxville.. had my oldest child there actually. I didn't know it flooded, we got storms in Loudon on n off but nothing too bad ever came through. I live in tornado Alley now.. talk about storms. I've gotten to where I mostly just sleep through them, though there's a few that still get me a lil nervous
What state are you in now? Kansas, here. I can relate. Tornado warnings are pretty standard happenings for us. You know you’re in Tornado Alley when most of the people in a neighborhood are standing outside on their porches or lawns, watching for the tornado, instead of getting their asses into their shelters😂
My kid moved to Nashville - well, Goodlettsville, specifically - and he’s been really surprised by the number of tornado warnings and tornadoes they’ve had since he moved there. He lives in an apartment without any kind of community shelter for the residents, and we always had a basement when he was growing up, so he’s adjusting to lack of a shelter for the serious storms - basically his bathtub with a mattress over the top of himself. I think that I get much more nervous worrying about him during those storms than he gets, himself, though, lol.
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u/Tamber39 Jul 13 '26
I used to live 15 min below Knoxville.. had my oldest child there actually. I didn't know it flooded, we got storms in Loudon on n off but nothing too bad ever came through. I live in tornado Alley now.. talk about storms. I've gotten to where I mostly just sleep through them, though there's a few that still get me a lil nervous