Reply #47: I remember a hurricane as a child, David, I think, where we were told

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to listen for tornados. The radio kept saying to listen for a freight train sound, and if you heard it, to go huddle down in an inner room.

We spent the whole hurricane huddled in an inner room, because everything sounded like a freight train! There were a couple of points when there seemed to be a more focused sound, and probably tornados were passing by (one struck about a block away), but a freight train could have driven by our window and not changed the sound significantly. And David wasn't a particularly significant hurricane. Although it toppled a tree onto my grandfather's car about ten feet from the house. We didn't hear that, either.