Here in Arkansas we are considered tornado alley as well. I have seen 4 tornadoes up close and personal and for some reason never worried about them. The neighborhood my mother-in-law lives in was pretty much destroyed by tornado one year and left her alone. I watched a tornado moving on the ground about a mile from my backyard 4 years ago. My parents thought I was insane when one year during a thunderstorm where tornadoes were reported my mother found me on top of my father's 40 foot steel CB tower looking for the tornado. She called me every name in the book and I never thought my mother could cuss like a sailor but she did. To this day I still love spring time and the storms systems it brings. If I wasn't legally blind I would be a storm chaser and follow the storms. I can still be found out in the yard watching the storms, listening to the scanner tracking the action and letting my kids know when to take cover. They know by now that when I sound scared it is time to take cover. I can always expect calls from them during storms even when they are not in their homes. For some reason even when we are at the fleamarket on the weekends everybody there asks me what direction they are traveling.