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| Alyn_Stark | Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2012, 5:25 PM | Message # 1 |
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| So they set off the base sirens for the first time of the day to warn us... then gave all clear 10 minutes later. I'm staying in my damn house. >.<
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| PandraNintra | Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2012, 5:39 PM | Message # 2 |
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| Good luck. We had the a tornado here last year, wiped out the entire town. Then repeated this year. I still have 'tornado nightmares'. Closet is the best place to be. Or under a bridge. Ah hell. You know the drill. (Tn/Ga. here.)
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| Ilanah_Thanatos | Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2012, 6:10 PM | Message # 3 |
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| Alyn...I had a meteorology prof. that told us once that the safest place to be during a tornado is in your car....in a ditch. I don't know how true that is....doesn't sound like a great deal of fun to me.
On a more amusing note, my husband lived in Toronto his whole life, and he had never heard a tornado siren until he moved here. The first time he heard it, he almost hit the ceiling and tried to herd our cats into the bathtub...
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| Karth_DeQora | Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2012, 8:43 PM | Message # 4 |
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| The safest place to be in a tornado is a place that doesn't have tornadoes, I imagine. Come to California... we only have quakes. Not like that's a problem or anything, we certainly haven't been expecting a cataclysmic shaker for the last decade.
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2012, 8:52 PM | Message # 5 |
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| I can't understand how people who live in hurricane- and tornado-prone areas can so blithely say "Heavens, no! I'd never live in California, there be earthquakes!" There was an earthquake near here yesterday, and four or five in all last week. No one noticed any of them. Pretty sure tornadoes and hurricanes don't go unnoticed, usually. Sure, there's a big one every hundred years or so, but I'll take a disaster every hundred years to one a year, or many times a year.
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| Karth_DeQora | Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2012, 9:01 PM | Message # 6 |
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| To be fair, Jace, we also have... *gasp* FIRES!
Y'know, those brush fires that are generally contained in wilderness areas and are forgotten about a day or two after they're extinguished.
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| Jaron | Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2012, 10:13 PM | Message # 7 |
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| Just as a point, a bridge is the worst place to be under in the event of the tornado; any survivor story is an absolute fluke. Many people die taking such cover, as any tornado that passes over a bridge will produce a wind tunnel effect under said bridge, which in combination with the extremely low pressure at the core of a tornado, produces a suction force so powerful there is no human being that resist it, leading to severe trauma and death.
The best place is a basement, or bathroom, and next... closet. Closet is not preferable, however, unless absolutely necessary, as most bedroom are on exterior walls, and the closet is within the wall... and the standard door is no match for projectiles being launched into them at 100+ mph. The reason interior rooms are suggested are because of the mere fact that there is usually enough mass in-between the exterior and you to stop any projectiles, and by the time the structural integrity is compromised of interior walls, the tornado has likely moved on. That is unless you're talking EF4-EF5 level vortices (most high level tornados have mutliple vortex events, rather than the commonly assumed and known single vortex event), in which case... you're screw no matter where you're at, above ground... in some cases below, too.
Jess, I'm pretty sure your meteorology professor meant, get our of your car and into a ditch if you're on the road. I really hope you never get caught in some bad storms on the road and drive your car into a ditch... that would be very bad. Jace, you know... we're getting earthquakes now, too... so I'm thinking you'll hear less of that excuse anymore, people are just scared of the "big one" that'll turn the Nevada desert into beachfront property. And Karth, there are typically many houses in-between the beginning and end of those fires so expertly contained in wilderness areas. Just sayin'.
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| Karth_DeQora | Date: Saturday, 14 Apr 2012, 10:45 PM | Message # 8 |
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| Well it's their own damn fault for building houses surrounded by brush and trees, innid'it!? *shakes cane*
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| Ilanah_Thanatos | Date: Sunday, 15 Apr 2012, 0:25 AM | Message # 9 |
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| Seeing as how I rarely drive....probably not. Im not even -technically- supposed to be driving right now. Other than that, central Ohio seems to be in a bubble that shields us from most unpleasant weather...though now that I say that the "chance os scattered thunderstorms " that we are supposed to have today will turn out to be something horrible. 
And Jace and Karthy....what about mudslides? Did you forget those?
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| Devenne_Ozera | Date: Sunday, 15 Apr 2012, 5:40 AM | Message # 10 |
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| I've never seen one. Is it possible to watch it and not be in the basement? Lol. The last time we had a blizzard up here...I wanted to go Snowmobiling so effin bad. That's goin to be the shitty part about moving South. No more Snowmobiling :(. Guess I'll have to try 4 wheelin or dirt bikin.
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| Karth_DeQora | Date: Sunday, 15 Apr 2012, 8:31 AM | Message # 11 |
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| I live in a dry valley, mudslides ain't nothin but a thing.
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Jace Varitek: In Northern California we just have gangs of vigilante interior decorators.
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| Ilanah_Thanatos | Date: Sunday, 15 Apr 2012, 9:10 AM | Message # 12 |
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| I didn't jinx myself, apparently. It's nice and sunny out...though it is hella windy.
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