I used to believe that you could tell if a tornado was coming because the wind would blow really hard, but the trees wouldn't move. I was never concerned about a tornado coming because the trees were always swaying.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that the trees caused the wind to blow by swaying back and forth, like a chinese fan. — Jason Blanchette
- The trees moving made the wind blow.— little jimmy
- I used to believe that the trees moving caused the wind to blow.— naomi
- when I was very young, I used to beleive that the leaves rustling in the trees made the wind blow— Ellona
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- I used to believe that it wasn't wind that made the tops of trees move.. It was dinosaurs.— H