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>> no, not even close. until two weeks ago we had half as many tornados as we're supposed to have time of year. should have had 500 on the ground by the middle of may and we had 250. it was a tornado drought because it was so cold in the east. the eastern part of the u.s. didn't have much of a spring. now it is spring and now we're seeing severe weather. now we're seeing the spring weather come here. cold air to the west, warm air to the east, that's the humidity. that clash of warm and cold makes tornados. we have had at least a couple of hundred just in the time to make up for the tornado dr...

29 on tuesday, 26 on wednesday, and again tonight, and of course, the week hasn't even come to an end, as chad mentioned. we will be watching this. >> chad, has the number and strength of tornadoes we've seen lately, has it been more intense than other years, other tornado seasons? >> reporter: we just got a very late start, anderson, because up to about two weeks ago, we had 250 tornadoes on the ground. in a time period or spring that we should have had 500 tornadoes on the ground already. so that was the tornado drought that we call it, because it was a very cool spring. you remember what it...

What changed with sandy compared to let's say sandy hitting a 1930, we had a tripling of the population along the shore, so, yes, three times more people were hit. three times more homes or even more than that were hit. and you take even more, more 15, 20 years ago was just a sleepy little place. all those homes that were hit were all built within the past 20 or 30 years. we have put people in places that have more severe weather. and so we are seeing it. there's more news coverage of it, as well. and even if you think about the first half of this year, where i'm talking about extreme weather,...

>> we have had these before. what changed with sandy compared to let's say sandy hitting a 1930, we had a tripling of the population along the shore, so, yes, three times more people were hit. three times more homes or even more than that were hit. and you take even more, more 15, 20 years ago was just a sleepy little place. all those homes that were hit were all built within the past 20 or 30 years. we have put people in places that have more severe weather. and so we are seeing it. there's more news coverage of it, as well. and even if you think about the first half of this year, where i'm t...

The warnings and many of them, they do know what to do. >> yesterday, brooke, i was out almost to the panhandle of oklahoma, almost touching the texas panhandle, and we were up there in an eyeglass supply company using their wifi, and the ladies behind the counter looked at me and said, make it stop. there's just too many days of this in a row. make it go away. and we had this tornado drought for the last four months, basically until the moore day. 250 tornados on the ground and there should have been 500. now we are making up for just day after day after day and they are weary. they are storm...