I think I've told this story before....
Summer 2004. Driving home from St. Louis to Chicago, on I-55. We stopped at the Illinois State Fair just to see what it was like. Basically, just a bunch of rednecks but veryy good corn. We get bored, and get ready to leave. I think we were gassing up the X (this was the E53) when it started to get a windy and it was getting darker. I turn on the radio, and hear a huge storm is approaching the area and there is a tornado watch. I decided to hit the road right then, and peel on to the interstate. As time goes by, the sky turns black and starts chruning. No rain, no hail, nothing, only windy and an erie feeling. When the tornado sirens go off and a tornado watch came into effect was when I decided to floor it. I got up to about 110/115 mph and held it for about 15 minutes until I deemed it was safer, and resumed at 90 ish mph.
A friend of mine, who lived in St. Louis (a BMW driver btw), who I was hanging with at the fair had to pull over and seek refuge inside some sort of retirement home.
So that is the story of how I managed to not get myself killed and drive my BMW at triple digit speeds at the same time.
I do not recommend twister chasing.
But I hope ya'll in the DC area are ok