Posted on 05/20/2013 12:46:11 PM PDT by dirtboy
Tornado warnings up in Oklahoma. Watches in TX, OK, KS, MO, far NW Arkansas.
Getting up into the girders goes without question, as little exposure as you can manage, and brace yourself. Cover your face as best you can. And pray.
I’ve never had a basement here in Indiana until my latest house.
It’s got a poured concrete basement with a rebar reinforced shelter under the stairway.
The lady that built it 20 yrs ago had a healthy fear of tornados.
Dear Lord, please rest their innocent souls, and wrap those left behind in Your healing embrace...
/johnny
Anyone else see that I beam, must be 18” wide x many feet long of main roof beam layin’ on the rubble, half twisted and bent like a J
.. sorry, at that Plaza Tower school
Godspeed to everyone in Moore, OK and other areas affected.
On the other side of things, they just put out that a 9 year old girl is at the hospital after escaping the school. Wants her mommie and daddy. Hopefully they are okay.
drive away from a tornado?
Yes, if you can see it (often it is raining or hailing and you can’t figure out where it is).
And, of course, if there is only one tornado around. They often come in clusters.
You guys are in my prayers. When I lived in OK we had two or three nearby tornadoes every year, but luckily the neighbors had an underground shelter which we used if a larger one was near...
Here in the Philippines, we only have typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanoes that are easy to run away from...(most of the deaths from these are from flash floods or from landslides, which are harder to run away from)
but our “tornadoes” are rare and tiny....
Thank God. She looks all right.
That would be optimal. If you happen to be on a roadway, looking West or South and see a tornado - and it does not seem to be moving, chances are it's moving right at you. If there's a road that runs perpendicular and you can try to outrun it at that angle - then that's a risk you can take. A cell phone showing the movement of the storm cell would be helpful to make such a decision. Most Spotters use doppler to determine where it is safe to make an escape if we get too close. Tornadoes generally move from the Southwest to the Northeast, or from the South or West generally to the East - so putting petal to the metal on a North/West or South road with the tornado to your SW might put you out of the path.
Children trapped and died in the school.
SO SAD.
God have mercy on their sweet souls.
7 children drowned in the school..........
Many prayers will be needed for these families.
The difference between a spotter and a chaser is 50 iq points. I was/am a spotter.
/johnny
Amen.
Well, fortunately, I live alone in a high-rise apartment in Virginia. Based on what I live near the thing most likely to get me would probably be a terrorist bomb.
I’d get some sort of shelter in the Midwest or Southeast if I had a family. There really aren’t many tornadoes, if at all, that are absolutely not survivable. (I wonder how a New Day shelter would have held up in the Jarrell tornado, though.) They seem surprisingly inexpensive. Not like you need much room for something you’re in probably 20-25 minutes, tops.
In my tiny Texas town, we have spotters who go to the highest places possible to report on the weather.
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