Hey mon...Infomania knows no bounds. I can read Stormfront or Pravda but I gotta watch my sodium intake--can only take so many grains of salt.
I monitor hundreds of blogs, and In From the Cold is one of my faves. Here's a piece you should enjoy on tornado warnings. A snippet:
I'm not a meteorologist, but as someone who's lived much of his life in Tornado Alley/Dixie Alley (and chased countless storms as a journalist), Mr. Spann raises very good points. Sirens are grossly inefficient as a warning system (as he notes in his blog); often, they sound across an entire county, when the storm is only threatening a fairly small geographic area. Many of us have heard the sirens sound on a sunny day, in conjunction with a tornado that's 30 miles distant, and moving away away from our neighborhood.
There's also the problem with power supplies; on several occasions, sirens failed to sound because the tornado knocked down electrical lines and the neighborhood was in the dark before the storm arrived. Residents waiting on the siren to take cover were surprised, and some paid for that delay with their lives. Spann believes that sirens should removed, and its hard to disagree with his reasoning. Without them, residents will be forced to rely on more accurate warning systems and (the theory goes) seek shelter sooner.
http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2011/06/false-alarms.html
Speaking of Stormfront...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWCNiIikbFw
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