"A tornado has been spotted two miles southwest of the Oklahoma City airport," the weather bulletin said. "It is moving toward the northeast at 25 miles per hour."
I was at that airport. In fact, as a weather radio announcer, I was on the air, live, reading the copy cold. And just as I was warning the public, I realized that I was in the direct path of this dangerous storm.
But I also realized something else: For the first time in my 15-plus years in Oklahoma, I was absolutely calm, completely unafraid, in the face of threatening weather.