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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:58:06 PM EDT
The folks living in tornado area's have very little or no warning that they are going to get hit.
That's got to be VERY hard to deal with and my heart goes out to everybody who has to deal with it. How the heck can you prep for the scenario that can happen at little or no notice ? Maybe a stupid question but being prepared and ready has to be a monumental task for something that can hit you faster than an ICBM. How the heck do you deal with it ? |
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AK, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:02:34 PM EDT
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Yup, the only thing worse than tornadoes are 6.0+ earthquakes
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:04:15 PM EDT
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Bro tornados are JUST AS if not MORE scared of you then you are of them.
Flat out just get your home and be like "Hey! You get the HELL out here alright?" "Were not taking kindly to this business right now and you need to leave." That's it. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:05:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Notcalifornialegal: Bro tornados are JUST AS if not MORE scared of you then you are of them. Flat out just get your home and be like "Hey! You get the HELL out here alright?" "Were not taking kindly to this business right now and you need to leave." That's it. 2 shotgun blasts on the front porch too! |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:05:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Gingerbreadman]
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Awareness is key. So is having a plan. Awareness won't steer a tornado away from your home, but it can help you keep from being caught unaware. Having a plan for where to go when it is time to go keeps you from having to come up with one on the fly.
When the real monsters come, sometimes there is nothing you can do. NOAA Storm Prediction Center |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:06:07 PM EDT
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Op do you know what's worse that a Tornado?
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:06:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By klinc: 2 shotgun blasts on the front porch too! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By klinc: Originally Posted By Notcalifornialegal: Bro tornados are JUST AS if not MORE scared of you then you are of them. Flat out just get your home and be like "Hey! You get the HELL out here alright?" "Were not taking kindly to this business right now and you need to leave." That's it. 2 shotgun blasts on the front porch too! And if you don't feed them, they stop coming back. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:06:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By klinc: 2 shotgun blasts on the front porch too! I've never even had to take it that far. They're like black bears playing Five Nights at Freddy's skittish. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:08:53 PM EDT
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I have lived in Tornado Alley for about 90% of my life. (Older than dirt) I watched a small one utterly destroy a barn my grandfather had just put up. I watched a bigger one tear the ass out of a small Amarillo suburb.
People have this image of helplessness in the face of a tornado. Truth is, even the biggest of big bastard tornados are maybe 50 yards wide. The likelihood of getting buttfucked by one is far lower than the risk of driving to work every morning. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:12:27 PM EDT
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You need to have a tornado shelter of some type at or near your home; my childhood home had one in the basement. We took cover there when a tornado took out the neighborhood behind ours. Pay attention to Tornado watches and warnings, and stay tuned to a local radio station. We had lots of tornados in west Michigan when I was younger.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:19:02 PM EDT
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Living in a trailer house for several years made me really pay attention to the weather. If I was off work and bad weather was expected, I'd hit the road and chase the storms back home.
Night time severe weather can eat a bag of dicks. It is not a good feeling being woken up by hail hitting the house sideways, then looking down the hallway and seeing the walls flex in the wind. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:20:54 PM EDT
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Bro, it's just like hurricanes, you just got a shorter notice window. You got your preps, and LITTERALY weather out the storm. Then you pick up the pieces and try to recover. Hopefully you got a heavy weather location in short reach when it happens.
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NE, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:25:12 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 2ANut]
[#12]
Originally Posted By Dagger41: The folks living in tornado area's have very little or no warning that they are going to get hit. That's got to be VERY hard to deal with and my heart goes out to everybody who has to deal with it. How the heck can you prep for the scenario that can happen at little or no notice ? Maybe a stupid question but being prepared and ready has to be a monumental task for something that can hit you faster than an ICBM. How the heck do you deal with it ? I've lived in Tornado Alley my entire life and I've only seen one tornado, decades ago. I was apparently right of the middle of everything that just happened and I still didn't see a tornado...just a little rain. The media likes to make it sound like 95% of the Midwest gets destroyed and has to be rebuilt from scratch every 3 years but it just isn't true. Tornadoes are very localized events, unlike hurricanes or earthquakes. You can be a mile away and not even know it happened. The vast majority of them don't even hit populated areas. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 9:31:53 PM EDT
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Kit, radio and lights stay ready to go in the basement. Stay close to the house when conditions are right.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:22:15 PM EDT
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13 years ago tomorrow, I was in the old coal bin of a 90 year old house NW of the 2011 EF4 Tuscaloosa Tornado. Afterwards, son did some quick recon and said debris fallout was about a block away.
Now I am about 1/2 mile from the ICW in the Florida panhandle. I've had power knocked out before from a hurricane (Ivan in 2004 in Tuscaloosa a couple hundred miles inland). I'll take the hurricane over the tornado because I have orders of magnitude more TIME to take action. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:29:02 PM EDT
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A lot of the time there isnt a whole lot you can do, but the chances of ever getting hit by a tornado are minuscule.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:35:37 PM EDT
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When I was younger, always considered hurricanes worse, because they’re big enough to spawn their own tornadoes. Actually had this conversation slot when “Twister” was still a new movie.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ll take the hurricanes. I’ll take a warning and the chance to leave if need be. That added with lack of basements/shelters here make “planning” for a tornado about impossible. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:36:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Red-Stater: A lot of the time there isnt a whole lot you can do, but the chances of ever getting hit by a tornado are minuscule. I’ve been with 1/4 mile of one twice. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:41:52 PM EDT
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I’ve been through quite a few hurricanes. If you don’t live near water or low lying area, it mainly sucks because of the threat of no AC for a long period. Tornadoes are way worse imo.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:46:42 PM EDT
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The percentage of ground that tornadoes actually touch in comparison to the thousands of square miles it could affect are minute. But, for those in the path, it can be devastating.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:48:32 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Red_Label]
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As much as I've grown to hate our winters... I'll take that all day long over tornadoes and hurricanes. We had a tornado up here on Father's Day 2010 that tore some buildings up (including our state's largest arena) and scared everyone, because it reminded us that they can occur here. But no one was injured or killed. To live in a place with no scenery to look at AND dread the threat of deadly weather from Spring-Fall? Nah bruh. I'll deal with snow and heavy coats.
ETA... we do get some pretty bad hail storms up here at times that have caused a shit ton of damage to vehicles, homes, giant flocks of waterfowl, etc. Our insurance rates have gone up as a result. |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:52:37 PM EDT
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Canes do a lot more damage, but it’s much easier to get out of the way of one with advance notice. Tornados just randomly buttfuck people and with little notice. It’s rude!
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USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:53:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: I have lived in Tornado Alley for about 90% of my life. (Older than dirt) I watched a small one utterly destroy a barn my grandfather had just put up. I watched a bigger one tear the ass out of a small Amarillo suburb. People have this image of helplessness in the face of a tornado. Truth is, even the biggest of big bastard tornados are maybe 50 yards wide. The likelihood of getting buttfucked by one is far lower than the risk of driving to work every morning. The supercell that just hit Elkhorn was 2-miles wide. The one in Iowa tonight was over a mile wide. Just sayin’…. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:59:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By feetpiece: Yup, the only thing worse than tornadoes are 6.0+ earthquakes |
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OK, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:59:59 PM EDT
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Lost everything I owned to an F-2
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OK, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:03:25 PM EDT
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Sirens woke me up at 04:30 this morning. Dodged a small one but I have apps on my phone, a siren close enough that it sounds like it’s right outside my window and I keep a small bag with important shit next to the bed, along with a pair of Jeans and boots. I’ve lived here for 20 yrs, last year was the first time one came less than a mile from me.
We have excellent resources wrt to radar and meteorologists so I usually check the radar for the plot of the storm, and sit tight unless it’s going to be a close or direct hit. I have a shelter and I think last year was the only time since I’ve lived here that I might have needed it. That storm took out 100ft of fence and did some light roof and gutter damage. Where I live, tornadoes are almost exclusively night time ones. It’s unnerving so you have to be ready to move quick and have a solid plan you can execute when you’re half awake. It’s gay. It’s helps to realize you’re going to die one day and fully embrace that truth. That’s how I sleep during tornado season anyway. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:06:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: I have lived in Tornado Alley for about 90% of my life. (Older than dirt) I watched a small one utterly destroy a barn my grandfather had just put up. I watched a bigger one tear the ass out of a small Amarillo suburb. People have this image of helplessness in the face of a tornado. Truth is, even the biggest of big bastard tornados are maybe 50 yards wide. The likelihood of getting buttfucked by one is far lower than the risk of driving to work every morning. Huh? |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:10:06 PM EDT
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Drove by an F4 forming today. It was windy.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:15:17 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Triggerstuck]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ZW17: Huh? The 2011 Joplin EF-5 was a mile wide at the base. We were under a tornado warning yesterday. We got quarter size hail and were directly in the path of the dirty side. Had rotation, but the funnel didn’t drop. My neighbor had an oak tree come down on her house.  |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:24:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Notcalifornialegal: Bro tornados are JUST AS if not MORE scared of you then you are of them. Flat out just get your home and be like "Hey! You get the HELL out here alright?" "Were not taking kindly to this business right now and you need to leave." That's it. 
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:25:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: I have lived in Tornado Alley for about 90% of my life. (Older than dirt) I watched a small one utterly destroy a barn my grandfather had just put up. I watched a bigger one tear the ass out of a small Amarillo suburb. People have this image of helplessness in the face of a tornado. Truth is, even the biggest of big bastard tornados are maybe 50 yards wide. The likelihood of getting buttfucked by one is far lower than the risk of driving to work every morning. 
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:28:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: I have lived in Tornado Alley for about 90% of my life. (Older than dirt) I watched a small one utterly destroy a barn my grandfather had just put up. I watched a bigger one tear the ass out of a small Amarillo suburb. People have this image of helplessness in the face of a tornado. Truth is, even the biggest of big bastard tornados are maybe 50 yards wide. The likelihood of getting buttfucked by one is far lower than the risk of driving to work every morning. Erm… what? The one that went through Little Rock last March was wider than that. The scar on the ground was at least 200 yards wide with the debris field much larger. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:32:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By feetpiece: Yup, the only thing worse than tornadoes are 6.0+ earthquakes |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:35:18 AM EDT
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I don't enjoy weather than kills 'weather' that's massive hail storms, tornadoes, hurricanes or other.
 The thought of Mother Nature just leveling everything in your life seems like a high enough risk to avoid aggressively. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:41:06 AM EDT
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You get more warning if you pay attention to the weather. I’ve never been surprised by a tornado between the 2-3+ day notice and then just paying attention to the radar/warnings when you’re in the window, but not everyone does that.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:41:16 AM EDT
[#35]
It is snowing for me today
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:41:27 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Curmudgeon762]
[#36]
Meh. Grew up in Western Kansas and saw plenty. Chased them in my car just like in the movie. Even got my 69 Fairlane spun into a ditch by a baby tornado while chasing a big one. The movie Twister came out years after that happened and my buddies and I all got a kick out of it.
Hurricane prep and no power for weeks sucks individually and the widespread destruction is much more impactful so personally I prefer tornadoes. |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:52:47 AM EDT
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Today is the anniversary of the Tuscaloosa tornado during the 2011 Super outbreak. I captured it live on my radar software.
 tusc
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