Pennsic storm story (semi-long)

[Hugh Niewoehner]

I thought there might be a few people here who would find this amusing.  I
guess we mid-western kingdoms have a reputation with regard to storms.   :-)

     Regards,
          Damon

>>Greetings from Tibor.  Ellisif wrote:
>>    Agreed.  About the only thing the annual panicked shouts do is
>>    reduce the chances that we'll all react properly if there ever *is*
>>    a danger.  That they came, this year, from a deputy of the autocrat
>>    made it that much worse; usually we just have unofficial Cassandras
>>    crying doom and gloom, but this year it was someone official who we
>>    were presumably supposed to listen to.
>>
>>Fair enough.  I too was disturbed with the level of unnecessary panic.  I
>>happened to be in EK Royal at the time, and was hearing about how a
tornado had
>>landed in Youngstown, and other false rumors.
>>
>>I high-tailed it over to Calontir, where I knew Manfred keeps an all-weather
>>radio with him at Pennsic.  (He is a pilot).  It was very useful at
Pennsic 24.
>>He wasn't in: but I learned the four warning signs of a tornado from the
>>Calontiri:
>>
>>  1. There is a temperature inversion, and the ground level weather cools
>>     rapidly.
>>
>>  2. There is a rapidly approaching front, clearly visible on the horizon.
>>
>>  3. The sky takes on an ominous greenish tint.
>>
>>  4. The Ansteorrans and Calontiri take the beer out of the beer pit, and
climb
>>     into it.
>>
>>This is a direct quotation, as best as I remember it.  (:-)
>>
>>	Tibor
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