No terrible storm, but there is snow today - not a lot, but enough to almost cover the ground. The pavement was warm enough that nothing accumulated there.

I am inside gladly today after taking the dog a small walk as snow is falling an inch an hour. But daughter and husband were in Boston for three days watching their son at William and Mary participate in a multi-college track meet at Boston U so they are presently driving thru this mess which has travel advisories.

22 people died in one county in Alabama! I hope all our KTers are safe.

No terrible storms. However, the weather caster expects 3 records will be broken tonight and tomorrow. Temperature is falling below zero F. Its supposed to be March!

We were texting our grandson at Auburn U. His apartment complex is about 10 miles from where some of the tornadoes struck. Said it was scary when the warning sirens started going off. They don’t really have a shelter.

I was reading about the tornadoes in Alabama and the resulting destruction. How horrible.

I will never experience a tornado - are they normal for this time of year?

Terrifying. I’m so sorry for those in the paths of the tornadoes and hope people can seek proper shelter.

The news about these storms is awful. People in the path of the tornadoes had very little warning. I can’t even imagine.

Haven’t been able to get through to sis and family in Lucerne, Al. I’m sure they had strong winds.

Those poor people in Alabama. Devastating. My kids took 9 hours to return from Boston. Going up it was 6 hours. Many wrecks and overturned cars.

Outsideplaying, have your son go to the lowest level in the apartment building, in the stairwell. Get underneath the stairs if possible. I'm glad he's safe.

Josephene, your family is in my thoughts.

Lily12, I'm glad your kids are safe.

Hoping Glenda will check in.

My sisters and family ar ok. Thanks Tami.

The pic of upside down mobile home housed a grandmother and 4 kids. None survived, according to my sis.

so very sad.

blfenton, here's some info. Texas/Oklahoma/Kansas and the central plains states seem to be tornado central but they're not uncommon in most states east of the Rockies. Folks I know living there have told me that Alabama has had quite a history of tornado devastation and has such tragic events most years.

Josephene, I'm glad to hear your family is ok. So sad about the grandmother and kids. I've had the weather channel on to get news.

bifenton, March is considered the start of the tornado season here but some of the worst have happened in November, December.

I could never live in areas with tornados. I find them terrifying. California has earthquakes and fires, and I've gone through several hurricanes when I lived in Florida but I couldn't do tornados.

We had a freak tornado in Salt Lake City in the late 90's. Someone commented that the color looked like a tornado and sure enough we saw it a few blocks away!

I, too, would hate to live in tornado country - give me an earthquake or erupting volcano rarely, but not yearly tornado threats.

blfenton, with climate change you may not be immune to tornadoes where you are - these are some I remember reading about most recently, not that far from BC:
Manzanita tornado
Pt Orchard tornado (near Seattle)

Battleground tornado

The local beach town of Santa Cruz, CA had some waterspouts (tornadoes over water) in January. Nothing anywhere as severe as what happens regularly in tornado country. One pulled off the roof of a restaurant on a pier, as shown in the video on this page:

https://www.ksbw.com/article/santa-cruz-wharf-restaurant-re-opens-after-tornado-strike/25861733

I'm a believer in global warming and climate change but it seems to be the habit du jour to blame anything nature related on it. One-off, atypical natural occurrences of all kinds have been happened since forever ago. Just like earthquakes in areas that don't have normally have earthquakes. And I don't mean where fracking is suspected as the cause.

Have family north of the area that was hit, they are safe, thank goodness.

Condolences to those dealing with tornado damage and have lost or injured loved ones. I've lived most of my live in one of the darker shaded states on the tornado map, the term for that area is "tornado alley". Most tornadoes aren't major like this one, many never touch down or cause any damage.

We are more aware of the number of tornadoes because there is more population living in more areas. Also, weather reporting technology can discern tornadoes in lightly populated areas. Like all weather, it's cyclical, there will be decades with more activity and decades with less activity.

Sure, if a tornado touches down in a corn field or a forest, it won't make the evening news. There are a lot of low population density areas and wide open spaces in the higher tornado risk areas shown on the maps. This most recent storm, like the terrible one in 2011 in Tuscaloosa and North Birmingham, shows what happens when a tornado doesn't land in a cornfield.

I live in tornado country and I'm ok with that. I prefer tornadoes to earth quakes because with tornadoes at least you get a warning!

And you can have a safe room.

NM has had a tornado or two.

I;m glad to hear you are safe.