The common misconception is that Pittsburgh has terrific natural shielding to protect it from disasters. Too far inland for hurricanes and nor’easters, no nuclear power plants around to melt down, and the mountains protect us from tornado’s touching down. I myself thought that to be true up until a few days ago when Pittsburgh’s National Weather Service tweeted out which counties had the most tornado’s in the last 114 years.

Color me shocked to find out Westmoreland was number one on that list. Ironically, we just passed the 4 year anniversary of one of the most viral tornadoes to hit the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLMe5rgNZeQ

Unlike the terrible videos of tornado’s ravaging the midwest, this one had a more comedic tone with the perfect delivery of ‘OH MY GOD, TORNADO! TORNADO!” I guess the natural “would you rather” at this point would be, have tornado’s roll through in March? Or snow storms?