Well, Bird, try Reese Witherspoon in the film "Sweet Home Alabama", and you'll learn the Hollywood version of that phenomenom. Anyhow, 3 years ago I was sitting in my "city home" and the sky got black and the wind speed picked up, so I turned on the Weather Channel and learned that a tornedo had touched down in an area on the coast just north of Charleston - my country home location. Not a good feeling - so I hopped into my pickup and sped there. Sure enough and consistent with Murphy's Law, a waterspout had come inland for a couple of miles before turning back out to sea, and it had crossed my property - 2 large and old oaks were on the ground and a huge number of branches from other trees. However, my garage/apartment, built to 150 mph specs, was intact. Took me all weekend to cut up the trees and haul such and other debris to the county dump.
Nope, never want to have another tornedo or waterspout anywhere near me or my property. I feel similarly about hurricanes, which is why my garage/apt is 20 feet above mean high water - still, if Mother Nature gets real upset, I'm toast, just like everyone else.
