Tornado Alley

There's supposed to be a tornado ripping through Wichita today. We do live in "Tornado Alley" so it's not really a shock to have tornadoes here (there were 8 twisters that touched down in Kansas last night), but they rarely come through the city. You can always tell when it's ripe tornado conditions. The air is really humid, it's eerily quiet and still, and the cloud-covered sky turns a creepy greenish color. I've never actually seen one, but we got to see a "Wall cloud" a couple of years ago (followed by a flash flood that we got caught in), and we've had sirens go off in the city before and headed to the basement at work to huddle like dumb sheep ("do you know if it touched down?", "no, do YOU know?"). The meteorology systems here are pretty amazing - you can go online and see the "super cells" forming and coming closer, and closer - they can pinpoint these suckers down to the minute they touch down. Funny thing is, I'm not worried so much about Euge or the kids (we all have tornado shelters where we are), but our poor dogs. We didn't check the weather before we left and they are outside today - I hope they are smart enough to take care of themselves. Though with nicknames like "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum"- I have my doubts .