Joe Bob Briggs: “I worked at a newspaper in Dallas where we had tornadoes all the time”

Joe Bob Briggs writes:

I’ve often wondered how “It sounded like a freight train” got so embedded into the DNA of every Texan that people who have never even seen a freight train will still say it. People who have experienced freight trains only via Preston Sturges movies screened in gay bars will still say, “It sounded just like a freight train.” It’s apparently a universal simile.