So there I was… 6:00pm on a Wednesday working some OT at the office.  Revit had consumed my last few hours.  The flooding from the hurricane (tropical storm Hermine) had started to recede.  All of a sudden, a siren from outside the building blows.  I had only heard this siren on sunny days when it was tested for tornado alerts.  But today was not sunny. It was rainy, windy and riddled with thunderstorms.  Six of us peeped our heads over our workstations, curious of the siren…  I yelled, “Stay calm!”

An overhead speaker came on telling us we should avoid all windows and that a tornado has been spotted in the …

One of my favorite things as a kid was sitting on the porch watching the thunderstorms come rolling through over the cornfields. Where my grandmother would get out the holy water and start telling everyone to get into the basement. I use to love watching things blow up.

Now I’m not sure what the weather is wherever you are located. But here in Toronto we have had quite the strange year (or two). First we had a bitterly cold winter, followed by a very wet spring. Which made way the coldest June/July in 15 years. But lately what has been happening are these very large …