Your stories gave me goosebumps! I live in Wisconsin and we have tornados, but, of course, nothing like Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. I'm glad we have basements here to go to when the sirens go off as I am claustrophobic and would literally go nuts in a small, concrete bunker! We still have the siren warnings. They test them every Wednesday during tornado season at noon. You can hear one go off and then the next and the next as they play off each other. OK, now I'll really date myself -- In the sixties, the sirens were actually created as civil defense warning sirens. There were two distinct sounds depending on whether it was an air raid warning or a tornado. They tested both weekly.