Potential Severe Weather tomorrow, 3-22-22 (Update: Tornadoes on ground in metro area)

I remember twice walking home from elementary school in knee-deep flood water. Freak storm, not predicted to flood like that, but it would happen and they'd try to release kids and get everyone home early somehow.

Us kids that walked everyday were just let go. Only had a few blocks to go, thankfully, and I knew the way intimately so had little danger of falling into a hole or something.

Can you imagine that happening today? One -- the parish or school would text out a closure message the night before, because that level of flood would almost certainly be forecast (to be fair, they miss some, too). And two -- no kid would be sent to walk out into that flood water.

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Point was ... just seems like a different weather world locally. I guess if you stick around long enough, sometimes even eternal, never-changing stuff can, indeed, change.