Got a friend who is new to blogging, so I cleaned up her first effort for her....She is researching the AI menace, I think she did herself proud for a first timer...

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Growing up as transplants in Tornado Alley we were way more deathly afraid of tornadoes than the people that had been here generations.Our family came from New England and stuck out like a sore thumb in Oklahoma but that was okay by us we didn't WANT to try to fit in with the dumb redneck hicks anyway. So we kept to ourselves, but one way this was detrimental was in what looking back now, I see as an over exaggerated fear of tornadoes.

Most Okies have a healthy respect for them but do not necessarily fear them. Hell, nowadays, tornado season is my favorite time of year I LOVE the energy and enjoy tracking them and driving out to watch from a distance and get pictures. Though driving through the very real disastrous consequences of the aftermath of them also means I RESPECT them and will not take any chances and have tried before in my adult life to see how many children can be crammed in a bathtub under a mattress;)

But growing up we didn't have much knowledge or experience with tornadoes, we only had fear. We spent many needless times cowered in a closet with my mother acting like it was the end of the world, loudly praying and reading ominously from the bible and us all crying wondering with each gust of wind we heard if it was going to be the one that takes out the whole house. Now between experience and modern technology we usually know when it's a storm that we can enjoy, when we should be worried, and when it might be life or death.

Though Okies have all known of or been in tornadoes that never got an official warning, and we've all been in warnings that we never took shelter in and rarely shelter for a watch. And if there's not a watch, it's business as usual without a care in the world. It comes down to experience of what you know are reliable indicators that something is imminent, possible, or extremely unlikely. But also knowing that just because you usually get the warning when something goes from possible to imminent doesn't mean that you ALWAYS will.

That's what Jesus' teachings were about recognizing that we are in a 'watch' and there will be many false 'warnings' but the signs will tell us that there's a tornado on the ground with this warning.

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-future-has-not-been-written.html