Texas weather is wack. Our state is generally thought to have a warmer climate but I’m not real sure why people make this misconception. It gets pretty damn cold here in the winter folks. It’s nothing like the East Coast or anything but we can get some awful winter weather around these parts. I feel like Texas has a lot of extremes in its weather. It can be in the 90s one day and 65 the next. Talk about getting sick and staying sick! I’ve never seen anything like it. The worst is when it rains here in West Texas. It’s so damn flat that there is nowhere for the water to go. Once the ground is saturated, the roads turn into small rivers and you literally need a small boat to get around. You would think that someone would have taken care of such a HUGE problem by now but no such luck. Texas is also famous for having spectacular thunderstorms. Around the beginning of April they start rolling in and they can be hell. These awful storms can produce hail and even spawn tornadoes. I love watching the lighting that usually accompanies the dark clouds though. It lights up the sky and literally puts on a show for you. Amazing. Hurricanes also give the coast of Texas A LOT of trouble. The gulf coast seems to be right smack in the middle of every other hurricane that forms. Poor Galveston Island. They got it bad last year. It just goes to show what a few hours of wind and rain can do.

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Twister is one of my favorite movies of all time. I remember when I was in the 5th grade, my dad took me to see it in the movie theater I had been begging my parents to let me see it because it was PG-13 and I figured they wouldn’t let me but my dad convinced my mom that it would be ok. I didn’t even care that I was a pre-teen going to the movies with my dad. I was just so excited to finally be seeing the movie. I’ve been fascinated by weather ever since I was young. I just think it’s so damn interesting because it’s something we, as humans, have no control over. Anyways, as soon as I saw the movie, I was instantly obsessed. I was convinced that I wanted to be a storm chaser and I still am actually. Everything about Twister was amazing. The beginning really throws you for a loop because Helen Hunt’s dad is killed by a tornado within the first 5 minutes! I thought it was really cool of Stephen Spielberg to include so many different tornadoes throughout the movie. Rather than just having a few tornado scenes, the whole movie is action packed and keeps you on the edge of your seat. From houses flying across the street to 18 wheelers being tossed into the air, this movie has all the action you could ask for. Although Twister is over a decade old, it’s still by far one of the best movies ever made!

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