OK - something that's been rattling around in my head for a bit. With the onset of spring & tornado season it hit fairly close to home.
What thing (or things) just give you the serious heebie-jeebies. I'm not talking a little bitty spider or a scary movie. I'm talking something fairly uncommon that creep you out.
Mine? Can be found here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...io_Greensburg,_Kansas_tornado_May_4,_2007.ogg
To summarize - National Weather Radio tornado warning for a EF5 tornado that destroyed an ENTIRE TOWN in Kansas in 2007. Knowing the end-result makes it a little creepier for me. However, had I heard this live, as it was happening, & been in the immediate area, you would've found me in the deepest cellar hyperventilating.
I don't know exactly what it is. The combination of the gravity of the situation & the delivery of the medium. Usually these are preceded by the tell-tale warning tone, and the interruption ends up creating an eerie silence. The voice still sounds robotic in its delivery - although they've made it much more pleasant sounding than in the past. I have heard some from 5-10 years ago that are extremely robotic.
Luckily I live in central KY, so not exactly tornado alley. I couldn't imagine being in the midwest plains being able to see a tornado roll across the land from miles away, watching it bear down on your location. However, about 10 years ago, while managing a local italian restaurant, there was a tornado outbreak in the area. We had the TV's on & tuned to local stations. A radio in the kitchen tuned to local radio. We had about 10 customers & 6 employees in the restaurant which was in a strip mall shopping center. Amazingly enough I was fairly calm at that time while wandering front front to back door keeping an eye out. Of course it was dark & the blowing rain made it impossible to actually SEE anything. Then on the radio someone calls in to report a funnel cloud dropping above a location about 1/4 mile from the restaurant.
I followed my instructions & told everyone to come back into the kitchen & get into the walk-in freezer or cooler just in case. I guess the responsibility overcame my normal freak-out response. It was interesting to see the different reactions of the people. There were a couple of customers who shrugged it off a kept eating. Another came back to the kitchen but wandered around, helping himself to another draft beer. And then there was one of my cooks - she was hunkered down in the cooler, sitting on a keg, cigarette in hand, staring blankly ahead and breathing hard. Entire spectrum of human reaction there.
So anyways, like I said... what freaks you right the fuck out?
What thing (or things) just give you the serious heebie-jeebies. I'm not talking a little bitty spider or a scary movie. I'm talking something fairly uncommon that creep you out.
Mine? Can be found here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...io_Greensburg,_Kansas_tornado_May_4,_2007.ogg
To summarize - National Weather Radio tornado warning for a EF5 tornado that destroyed an ENTIRE TOWN in Kansas in 2007. Knowing the end-result makes it a little creepier for me. However, had I heard this live, as it was happening, & been in the immediate area, you would've found me in the deepest cellar hyperventilating.
I don't know exactly what it is. The combination of the gravity of the situation & the delivery of the medium. Usually these are preceded by the tell-tale warning tone, and the interruption ends up creating an eerie silence. The voice still sounds robotic in its delivery - although they've made it much more pleasant sounding than in the past. I have heard some from 5-10 years ago that are extremely robotic.
Luckily I live in central KY, so not exactly tornado alley. I couldn't imagine being in the midwest plains being able to see a tornado roll across the land from miles away, watching it bear down on your location. However, about 10 years ago, while managing a local italian restaurant, there was a tornado outbreak in the area. We had the TV's on & tuned to local stations. A radio in the kitchen tuned to local radio. We had about 10 customers & 6 employees in the restaurant which was in a strip mall shopping center. Amazingly enough I was fairly calm at that time while wandering front front to back door keeping an eye out. Of course it was dark & the blowing rain made it impossible to actually SEE anything. Then on the radio someone calls in to report a funnel cloud dropping above a location about 1/4 mile from the restaurant.
I followed my instructions & told everyone to come back into the kitchen & get into the walk-in freezer or cooler just in case. I guess the responsibility overcame my normal freak-out response. It was interesting to see the different reactions of the people. There were a couple of customers who shrugged it off a kept eating. Another came back to the kitchen but wandered around, helping himself to another draft beer. And then there was one of my cooks - she was hunkered down in the cooler, sitting on a keg, cigarette in hand, staring blankly ahead and breathing hard. Entire spectrum of human reaction there.
So anyways, like I said... what freaks you right the fuck out?
