I like storms. My BIL and I use to do what we call "storm camping"...we'd hear that a good line of thunderstorms were coming through and we'd head to woods to ride it out. We had a blast, hunkered down in the tent or in our raingear watching the swamp start flooding and the critters moving. BUT, we wanted nothing to do with tornadoes, they are killers. We've lost our share of folks here in Alabama to tornadoes and until billions of dollars worth of damage through the years. Around here you can't see them coming as you can out on the plains where you can see them miles away. Due to the clouds, rain, and terrain they can be on you before you realize it. I've never see one, but have had them come as close to roughly 200 yards from me...and left lots of pine trees mangled. We used to have a "tornado alley" a mile or so to the NW of us...that path hasn't seen a tornado in years...and I hope it stays that way. Tornadoes are extremely violent, destructive storms. Give me a nice thunderstorm or a tropical depression moving through...they're nice. I like lightning storms, too. But, when the ice starts falling from the sky and it's warm outside you'd better be hunkered down safe somewhere. I haven't worked on it much in the last year or two, but you can see some of my weather-related interest here (check the sidebar menu out for some weather photos):
www.beeweather.com