Joey: [Discussing at Meg’s on the tornades they have seen so far at Meg’s home at her dining table, eating steak and eggs] No, that was a good-sized twister. What was it, an F3?

Bill: Solid F2.

Melissa: See, now you have lost me again.

Bill: It’s the Fujita scale. It measures a tornado’s intensity by how much it eats.

Melissa: Eats?

Bill: Destroys.

Laurence: That one we encountered back there was a strong F2, possibly an F3.

Beltzer: Maybe we’ll see some 4s.

Haynes: That would be sweet!

Bill: 4 is good. 4 will relocate your house very efficiently.

Melissa: Is there an F5?

[Everyone goes dead silent]

Melissa: What would that be like?

Jason ‘Preacher’ Rowe: The Finger of God.

Melissa: None of you has ever seen an F5?

Bill: ...Just one of us.

[Looks upstairs, indicating Jo]

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