[Sca-cooks] OT: Tornados

[Butterflye]

> I have found that it is a matter of what scares you. I would never live in
California because Earthquakes scare the crap
> out of me. I understand what you say about them being over with quickly
but the sheer unpredictability of them is what I
> have a problem with. Same with tornados. With Hurricanes you know that
they are coming and you can get out of the way.

Actually, when you live in tornado country long enough, you can tell the
weather on a day when a tornado is likely, and keep an eye out. I have lived
in southern Cal and went through 1 mild earthquake -- it shook me up a
little (knocked all my birds off their perches), but it didn't make me
afraid or worrying about the next one. I grew up in central Illinois where
there are tornados every spring, and I can wake up in the morning and look
at the sky and know that there will probably be a tornado that day, just by
the look of it.

But the real deal is, you can't live in fear of the weather or geology your
whole life. Earthquakes can literally happen anywhere. There is a major
faultline in Missouri that could take out most of the Midwest. Another in
New York. Anything can happen. No place is 100% safe. So why not find a
place that speaks to your heart, and not worry about what might or might not
happen "someday."

Now to relate this to cooking in some way, just to stay on topic a little,
if the barometer is dropping such that there could be a tornado or a
hurricane, it's not a good day to put up preserves. I don't know why, I just
know that it's so.

~~ Lorète ~~