Well that wasn't particularly pleasant

This is the first time that I've ever heard tornado sirens during bad weather and I have to admit that it was a rather unsettling sound. It took me a minute to realize what I was hearing and I probably wouldn't have recognized it at all if there hadn't been a test about a week ago. I'm not sure what the criteria is for sounding the sirens so I don't know exactly how bad the weather was. I don't think we had any hail here, although I heard there was some further south, and the electricity stayed on which is certainly the best outcome in the situation.