Tornado Alley Quotes

I want to see this lady out the front gate and into her car and off the street and out of town and then removed from the county and then the whole state and finally relocated to the place they call Tornado Alley in Kansas.

In each step was a thousand journeys, a thousand acts of courage and faith.... One breath, one step, one day at a time. For somethings in life, there is no way around -- you have to go through them.

The fatality study wasn’t an intellectual exercise. It was intended to be a wake-up call for the nation. Tornadoes are dangerous and deadly, and they can happen anywhere. And tornado fatalities are likely to be higher outside Tornado Alley. In the twister-prone states, people are better educated about storms and shelters.

Lea looked at the tidy apartment. “She was pretty organized. My flat looks like a cross between a food fight competition and Tornado Alley.

My daddy said, “Well, you kids better stay close to the house.” The morning went by, slow and scary. We did stay close to the house. Folks didn’t call our part of the country Tornado Alley for nothing. Along about lunch, it hit. Only there was no warning like we had today. No funnel cloud, no nothing. One minute we were eating beans and biscuits at the table. Next there was a roar—worse than a train—worse than a hundred trains. And then there came a terrible tearing sound, like the world was being ripped apart. I can still hear it in my mind. I looked up, and I saw sky. The ceiling was

(Like the child who passes an index finger through a candle flame to test the boundary between peace and pain, people who grow up in Tornado Alley know when to linger and when to run for their lives.)

life in Kansas. Destructive twisters have devastated whole communities, including some that never fully recovered. Yet, there is also a legacy of rebuilding and rebirth, of neighbors and families helping one another. This story includes the many ways that people prepare for severe weather, such as the coordinated efforts of national, state, and local officials along with a host of institutions and private companies, to attempt to bring a level of predictability to the ever-unpredictable nature of storms. In a place where one is never truly out of harm’s way, it is perhaps inevitable that those who live in Tornado

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