Those of us in and around the edges of Tornado Alley will soon have to rethink what hit us. The Weather Service has decided that the old standard F5 on the Fujita Scale didn't require winds as high as they initially thought. It seems it doesn't take 300 mph winds to blow apart a frame house. Knocking on the walls of my own frame house, I have to say, "Well, DUH!" I'm thinking anything above 75 mph ought to take my place down.
Okay, I exaggerate slightly. But not that much, I think. Certainly, my garage would crumble under a direct hit from an F1 tornado. The house isn't that much more stable, these days (probably something to do with all those boxes of books I keep in it for insulation).
But I digress. These changes in numbers won't hit the tv weathermen right away. They get a whole year to readjust their thinking, since the new scale goes into effect in February 2007. So we get a year of practice before we start getting confused again. snort.
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