Living in "Tornado Alley" we experience this weather all too often, hehe. In fact when the weather starts to get bad and create those "funnel clouds", we go outside and watch. Call us stupid, but I find it fascinating! But for someone not having lived in this area, it can be terrifying. Last spring '06 we experienced the worst patch of tornados I've seen in awhile. Thankfully I wasn't living there at the time (I actually moved down there during one of the storms, though, there was so much hail it looked like the ground was covered in snow!) but it was very scary indeed.