Sirens and hail and wind ~ I want to go West!

[GotSmart]

Just another night in Tornado Alley.  

The sitens go off, and everyone goes outside to look at the sky.  Lightning everywhere.

Extreme tornado threat.  I miss earthquakes.  You can ride those out.  :s

 

[SternWake]

That is an impressive line of thunderstorms, stretching from Canada to Oklahoma.

I Miss having the atmosphere scare me. 

 Impending storm music:

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[Wabbit]

...The sitens go off, and everyone goes outside to look at the sky...

This is a$$backwards...when the sirens go off, go INSIDE BASEMENT!!!! lol, now to wait and hear that going inside basement is the worst thing to do...

 

[GotSmart]

No shelters or basements within 5 miles of this place.  The safest thing to do is to look for the funnel, (which always goes North~East) and go at right angles away from it. 

Most of the larger stores here have built in safe rooms, but there are no public shelters in this county.  Not a single safe room in any of the schools. It is more important to pay for gooberment vacations than public safety.

 

[jimindenver]

Just make sure that when you say west that you mean west of the Rockies. There are lots of tornadoes on the plains including Denver. Even the mountains are not immune.

 

[AbuelaLoca]

Wasn't too bad where I work last night... most of the action was west and south of us! The wind was pretty wild, though, and threw my little car all over the road on the way in... everything is pretty and clean looking this morning!

 

[waldenbound]

When I think I have weather woes, I'm sure glad I don't live in the Mid West anymore. I'm terrified of tornadoes.

 

[IanC]

Just another night in Tornado Alley.  

The sitens go off, and everyone goes outside to look at the sky.  Lightning everywhere.

Extreme tornado threat.  I miss earthquakes.  You can ride those out.  :s

I wonder if parking alongside a brick or concrete block building on the off side of the wind direction would be the answer. When one went through my home town, the brick buildings were mostly spared, while the stick built houses were wiped out.

 

[Headache]

As I learned from the tornado I survived; brick buildings don't mean a thing especially from an EF3 and above and in consideration of how it(the brick building) was engineered. Look at the ones that hit Moore, OK. One of the schools was brick and it tore right through it but that tornado was an EF5.

Most of us would have no way to determine a buildings engineering on sight. It's a gamble no matter what. You do your best to survive. I posted this yesterday:

https://vanlivingforum.com/Thread-The-engine-is-fine-850-CO-Springs-CO?pid=268914#pid268914

All I needed was some sharks...

 

[Almost There]

And just what are you still doing there??

I thought you were busting loose at the beginning of this month!

Time for you to be on the road John...

 

[GotSmart]

And just what are you still doing there??

I thought you were busting loose at the beginning of this month!

Time for you to be on the road John...

I will see the specialest in a couple weeks.  But I have a couple electrical systems to set up.  

Things are in motion.  

 

[rvpopeye]

I've seen people that parked on the lee side of a concrete block building (I think it was a Lowes) .......anyway the roof flew off and the wall was knocked over onto the vehicle. They survived but it sure looked like they wouldn't !
Underground storm shelters are the best choice if you can get to one.

 

[GotSmart]

The 2011 EF5 in Joplin MO was one mile wide, and $2.8 Billion in damage.  135 killed, thousands injured.  It traveled many miles

 

[Wabbit]

An F5...I can't even imagine the horror. We were in Cedar CTY, Iowa an had Fire Rescue stop by at 2am to check if we were alive.(small towns people KNOW when there's anyone new around). We were, but a tornado "less than a mile away", flattened our camp.(tents). She woke me up and the 6 ft ceiling in the tent was a foot over my head. I told her to get in the minivan and try to see any "spouts" before it saw us. Pointless on that night, so clouded that it was just pitch black. Got in vehicle and tried to get to open clearing with a low spot. One of the few times I asked any invisible helpers to take care of whatsherface...same tent went on to survive 60-70mph winds in same county\same year.(well after I repaired poles)...