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Word origin: tornado
General May 31st, 2008
It’s ironic that yesterday central IL had severe spring weather (thunderstorms, tornados, softball sized hail, flash flooding, yadda yadda) and the word of the day on calendar was tornado. (How did it know?) It comes from the Latin tornare, which also gives us the word “turn”.
I tried to leave work around 6pm and beat the weather home, but I was stuck in the middle of it. Really blinding sheets of rain on the way home … it was harder to drive in that rain than some blizzards we’ve had. When I got into the neighborhood, I had to forge through some backed up storm drains… It’s really freaky stopping at a flooded intersection and watching the water gurgle and surge up closer to you. Apocalyptical almost. Thanks Tony for putting that in my head.
Everything at my house was okay, and other than a frazzled shepherd, we survived the storms just fine. Anyone take any damage? I poured a few bourbons, put Zelda on the big screen and weather updates on the little one, and kicked some Gannondorf butt.
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