| | Shebear said "I can't get over how many storms we get with summers now, and tornados.....I dont remember so many of either when younger.... A lady said there wasnt cell service for awhile, why didnt the cell provider fix that awhile ago?
That poor elderly guy who passed who lived alone, and glad the other couple were ok and nice that everyone helped each other. " |
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I think it's in part awareness. I can remember being out at the farm when I was a kid (south of Neepawa, close to Brookdale, was the RM of Langruth back then, not sure what it is now) and we had no TV, and the radio was perpetually tuned into the Portage radio station. We had no weather reports, nothing that would tell us what was going on besides the Portage weather.
My grandmother would go outside in the morning and be, "the smoke is doing this, the leaves are turning over, the birds are blah blah blah..." and she always knew when bad weather was coming. We had [i]so many[/i] bad storms out there growing up... what we have now pales to them on the most part IMO.
But now we have media reports, weather warnings on radios, cell phones, twitter reports, everything that makes us uber-aware of these events as soon as they happened. So yeah, it seems like more, but it's not significantly more.