Jun
3rd
2014
more tornados inbound. · 11:51pm Jun 3rd, 2014
Another huge storm is on it's way, supposed to be a lot of scattered tornados. I'm particularly scared of this one, we never had this problem back in Massachusetts. Anyway we are debating leaving town or at least the house and chilling somewhere safer. The whole state is going to be covered in a big ass storm though. I want to go to Louisville (the biggest city around) something just seems safer about a city in a situation like this. Gah! Can't I just catch a break!
Whoa, I've never had that kind of problem...So...
...Get outta there, I guess? Find shelter? Idk...?
I guess getting to the city has some good benefits, but there are some cons as well. While you'll be much closer to big hospitals and rescue teams should you need them, there's also a lot more things to get trapped under. It all comes down to where you can get below ground. Like I said before, I've seen a couple tornadoes with my own two eyes. At least up until I was eleven and moved to Oregon. Either way, it's a judgement call.
So, I have a friend who grew up in the middle of tornado valley, so I asked him for some tips for ya, here's what he recommends.
First up is the oblivious. If you got a tornado coming at you, get into a cellar. If you don't have one, ask a neighbor if you can take shelter with them, or a closet works well if it's right on top of you (like right next to your house). If you're in a warning zone, find shelter, but don't go into it until it's touched down or has a predictable path. If you don't have any kind of shelter nearby, your best bet is a room with as few windows as possible. You're gonna want a radio app for your phone to stay updated on weather encase the power goes out. Not knowing where a tornado is is much worse than being able to see one. Over all, he says just be prepared. keep track of the weather and any reports you can get, know where you're going to find shelter if you need to,, and be ready for your power to be out for an extended length of time.
Hope at least some of it helps. Tornado season is just beginning, so you'll need to get used to them if you plan to keep living where you are.
2172410 Thanks, that advice really puts me at ease, especially from someone who's been through this a lot more than I have, thank your friend for me as well. Oh the more I miss Mass every day. I'm thinking of just driving north east until the storm dissipates. Our neighbors (also my boyfriend's aunt and uncle) have a basement so that's our go-to if we need it generally. I hope it just misses this town completely. My heart isn't great and getting it racing with a big storm can' be healthy.
For me, going to a big city seems almost counter-intuitive, as there's a higher probability that large debris is going to be flying everywhere. But like Bassline said, there's easier access to emergency services. I'm no meteorologist, but I'd actually say that the large buildings might do something to disrupt the wind patterns, thus dissipating the tornado. But the key here is to stay calm and don't panic. I've had to deal with people panicking, and they immediately go to worst-case scenario. And I don't think that you're the only person going through some wacky weather, even though it might be tornado season where you live. I have no clue as to why the weather is so bad this year, but I'd take a gander that it's with the extremely cold winter we had. And it actually seems that we're in one of the warmer periods in what seems to be an eternal 'ice age', if you will. (I'm probably going too much into specifics, but I'm big into analyzing things; which I do too much sometimes (ex. trying to figure out how stuff works when it intrigues me, where as most people would just be like "hey, that's cool," I'm like "Hey, that's cool. I wonder how it works." and I've digressed again; sorry 'bout that)
Again, I really don't know what to say. Living in London seems so calm compared to this. One of the worst thing I have to deal with is when it rains suddenly, and I have to run to the nearest shelter to stop my stuff (inc eReader and laptop) from getting soaked. I have never experienced a tornado.
Good luck and BUILD A SHELTER OR SOMETHING SIMILAR!!!
-Twilight_Scratch
(Also, NEVER get Tesco own-brand oolong tea. It's EVIL.
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2174512 and your extremely lucky there not fun, i had delt with one a few months back. and thank god it didn't touch down on my road bu it did two streets back from mine and tore one house up, and flew a tree into another.
2175814 ...Wow...
That sounds bad. Really bad. I hope you're safe though (as in adequate defence measures)!
2176863 it won't be joining again for awhile, were I live tornados are VERY RARE for the fifteen years I've been alive that was the first tornado I've ever seen with my own eyes so like I said VERY RARE to have one. But the hurricanes are a bitch though and those I deal with a lot