The county where I live has a policy of sounding the tornado sirens whenever a tornado warning is issued for the county immediately to our west. I can't say it's a terrible idea since (a) severe weather moves from west to east, for the most part and (b) there probably isn't such a thing as too much advance warning that a tornado might be on the way. The county to our west is across the Mississippi River and in another state, but still, it's not a terrbile idea.
Unless you live with people who have anxiety about severe weather.
Exquisite chaos bloomed all over college football this past weekend like supercells ahead of a cold front, but it did not come near the five teams of the Sweepiverse. Only two of them played, and both of them lost, but that is what I predicted was going to happen, so. UCLA beating Wisconsin and Oregon beating Nebraska is what was supposed to happen. That was just the world functioning the way it normally does, though I wouldn't blame Nebraska fans for wondering why the world seems to want them to experience so much pain. (It's because of how y'all acted back in the Eighties and Nineties.) Dylan Raiola coming off the bench to beat his former team might seem like something out of a direct-to-streaming movie you'd turn off after fifteen minutes, but it really happened, in the same way that Indiana's winning streak got broken by a couple inches.
Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota fans can take comfort in knowing that neither the meteor strike of upsets nor the garden-variety predictable victories/defeats came anywhere near them last weekend, but it's only because they weren't playing. It just turns out to have been a good day not to be playing. Assume nothing else.
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