xkcd #3267: Types of Tornado Alert
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I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger.
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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Heisenberg's Tornado Principle: you can know tornado's position and velocity within error margins. i.e. you can know a tornado's location, but when you go to check it out it's somewhere else.