Weather......

[gja1000]

My sister-in-law lives in Norman OK and they had a tornado yesterday. It uprooted some HUGE trees very close to their house and their daughter's home. Thankfully, both their homes are OK. But there are supposed to be more and stronger storms there again today - just like you Diana.

For anyone with an iPhone (or iPad and maybe iPod), you can get an application called iMap Weather Radio. It uses the GPS in your phone, iPad or whatever, to send you warnings when severe weather is where you are located. So, I could be in Kansas and if there is a tornado warning where I'm visiting, it is going to tell me. You get a text on your phone and a spontaneous voice warning.

The app was developed after the Joplin tornado to try to find a way to warn more people about impending severe weather. It distinguishes between watches and warnings. I keep my phone on the nightstand by my bed and the first time it went off in the middle of the night, it nearly scared me to death. Its a man's voice that reads the warning and so I was awakened from a dead sleep to hear a man talking in my bedroom. LOL! I feel much more comfortable with it on my phone though. My sister-in-law in OK and her husband both downloaded the app today after I had the sense to tell them about it. I don't know why I didn't tell them last month with I downloaded it.

It has all kinds of warnings, fog, snow, lake effect snow, wind, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes. You just check the ones you want to receive.