You know the saying "You're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy." I've heard it a lot since I moved here in May, but I'm not so sure about that.
Since I have been here I have been through three tornado scares. I lived in what they lovingly called Tornado Alley in Kansas, and it lived up to it's name very well over the years.
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