re: What's your phobia?

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Spiders and Tornados.

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Tornadoes are not an irrational fear if you live in the South East. Everyone talks about the Western Tornado Alley but we actually have a very dangerous tornado zone of our own called Dixie Alley and the ones here are often more dangerous because of our population density and that they're likely to occur at night (which is rare elsewhere) and in conditions where we don't know what we're seeing -- we don't always get the easy to spot funnel cloud. More often the topography, trees, hills, rain clouds and shapes make them too hard for anyone who isn't a 'spotter' to identify correctly. You can't hide/shelter from what you don't know is coming.

So no it's not irrational to have this phobia. I've went through a tornado and didn't know it until I went outside after the storm (it was scary as hell but we didn't know until after the fact). The one that hit you sprung small ones here that hit us that night (that one was a group of tornadoes) -- it brought people's stuff from as far down as Georgia and Alabama when that one hit all the way to people's yards in E. TN.

Dixie Alley: LINK