During tornado warnings, my brother, mother and I would go in the basement, and Dad would stay upstairs. I thought he was too heavy to get blown away.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- I used to believe that when there was a tornado watch, you were supposed to sit down and watch the tornado.— Kay
- if heavy people went on a plane i thought that it would tip over.— michael hague
- When I was a kid I thought that when tornado/twisters were what happened when God sneezed.— Not In Kansas Anymore
- When I was a child, I thought that the Heavy Metal was Satanic music.Anon
- I used to think if a tornado sucked up a poisonous mushroom, it would die.— Will