6:30 is still” rush hour” in my area, and they have been warning of threatening weather all week.
What are people supposed to do? Quit their jobs and hide at home?
Hell that’s no safer than any place else.
I’m just saying the government should simply put out warnings and then get out of the way and not clog traffic “ for everyone’s safety”
I think people are still learning from these. This, frankly, is the worst I’ve seen it in OKC. Both the May 3 1999 and May 20 2013 missed us by about 2 miles. Today it looks like we had a much nearer miss (stockade fence with metal poles bent over, roof damage, trees down, etc in our neighborhood).
I think after May 20 people decided it was better to simply leave than weather these storms. I have never seen traffic so busy at this time of the night in my area. That makes me think people were trying to get out, but you can’t leave when the roads are clogged. Had several yahoos burn past me on the highway at very high rates of speed, apparently in a mad dash to escape or make it home in time.
The best bet? Get a storm shelter and ride the storms out. Even a direct hit by an F-5 cannot destroy an underground shelter (but you might have to be dug out after). That’s far, far better than being caught on the roads as some people were.
The weather reporting is very, very good, BTW, so it’s possible to know when it’s still safe to travel and when it’s not. I’d say it’s too late if you’re within a 30 minute window. On something like this that covered a large area with tornadoes all over, it’s foolish to try and escape. A family member tried it and ended up having a much nearer miss than if they had stayed home.