Current mood:	scared
Current music:	"For You" by Manfred Mann

Momentarily Freaking. Please stand by...
When I get back to college, I'm going to major in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. I have this thing with tornadoes. I am totally facinated by them; probably because they scare the shit out of me. I stood up and cheered when I saw the trailer for "Twister" in the theater. Just for some reason, I am drawn to violent weather. Maybe I'm just a Weather Channel junkie. What I do know, is that ever since I was about 7, I've dreamed about tornadoes. I've have a tornado dream about once every 6 months for decades. Usually, in the dream, I'm standing on a porch or street, and I'm looking east. The tornadoes (there are usually 3 in a line) touch down about 10 miles and are moving away, but I can see them. I have no idea what this dream means. The one time the storm was different in a dream, I was looking out of the guest bedroom window in our old house in Lynwood. The tornado came down by the church, and I turned, grabbed the cat, and ran for the basement. I had that dream in January of 1997. On May 18, a tornado hit Lynwood, and had I been looking out that bedroom window, I would have seen exactly what I saw in my dream. We had sold the house by that time, so it would've never happened to me, but that doesn't stop the freaky feelings when I think about it.

With tornado season officially in swing, I have multiple weather stations active on my computer. I'm keeping tabs on my sister Kris, who lives in Brooksville, Florida with her horses. My desktop has been going crazy all day with thunderstorm and tornado warnings. So far, she's only been hit with thunderstorms.

However, one of our Portfolio Managers, Scott, is visiting Naples with his wife and their 5-year-old daughter and 3 1/2-yeard old twin girls. They are currently under a tornado warning.

2:20 pm- Pasco County, just south of Hernando County (where Kris lives) has just been issued a tornado warning. This is also near Robyn. Grr!