Another Round.

Tornadoes all over the south again, and even in North Carolina again, or so said Lanie Pope over at WXII this evening. She's fancy and all, but I still trust her. She seems calm. Even if there's a tornado on the ground in Clemmons, she's calm.

The difference between the NC tornado on-camera interviews and the AR on-camera interviews: Here, in NC, the bewildered people look into the camera and say Sounded like a train and We were just sitting there when. The Arkansas folks say This one was different than the others. There wasn't as much debris in the funnel.

We — here in 27408 and surrounding environs — know this kind of thing happens, and we know it occasionally happens to us. In Arkansas, though, in Missouri, in certain parts of Alabama — in places that are not here, people look gamely into the camera and distinguish this one from that one. This week's tornado is different from last week's. I drove out west a couple of times. They advertised for weather radios at gas stations. Milk, $1.99. Weather radios, $19. We here live a fairly charmed life half-snugged up against these mountains.

This has been a busy hundred hours for the fancies. It's cool and clear here tonight after a day that threatened violence but in the end just thundered some. Rained some. Next best chance of the Live In The WeatherCenter Jamboree: Wednesday into Thursday. Good rain out of these past few days. We were lucky. I've never seen a tornado, and I know we were lucky. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.