Posted by: Executive Producer, Julie Fike

Us news people often ask ourselves on days like this, what's worse, tornadoes or hurricanes?

I've asked this questions many times before and I find the answer depends on where this person has lived. Here in Oklahoma, most people say tornadoes. The Texas Gulf Coast, hurricanes. I've lived in both places and have lived through both types of storms. For the anticipation and just the "messing" of your mind factor, I would say hurricane. For Katrina and Rita, weather guys were predicting the story 14 to 10 days out. So your mind gets to play tricks on your every day the storm gets closer.

For just the pure noise factor, tornado. It's no surprise most people describe it like a freight train. They are just down right scary sounding. In both storms you have fierce winds and rain and sometimes flooding. However, as we've experience this year with Erin, those hurricanes tend to linger.

No matter what the type of storm, news people go out in these conditions to bring you what's happening. Today, my former colleagues stretched across the country, were talking about Wayne Dolcefino. He's out of KTRK in Houston. He was one of the first to show us what Hurricane Humberto was doing. He was standing out in 75mph winds with rain pelting his face. Let me tell you, that rain feels more like needles. Wayne's a great reporter and a great guy. It's great to see him out in something that he loves to cover. And I know this man doesn't fear any storm. Julie