***The damage is severe but it’s relatively isolated,***
When I was young, almost everyone had a storm shelter. Back then there was no weather radar, and all the TV weatherman could say that there was a “possibility” of tornados. We were then on our own.
My mom said that back in the Depression, they lived in a house with a cellar. When the weather got bad they would all go into the shelter.
She said she did not know what she was more afraid of, the tornadoes or the lizards ad spiders in the cellar.
RDdB: “We were then on our own.”
Now they can see the hook form as it starts to circulate, and they can even detect the debris field kicked up by a tornado. Not only that, but you’ve got live reporting on TV, radio reports, and streaming on the internet. In Oklahoma, they have storm trackers who actually drive all over the place in order to find and track tornadoes. We also have sirens that go off when a tornado is coming. It’s nothing like it was when we were children.