i find it hard to believe that no one has posted anything about the storms that tore thru the South.for all the nonsense i see here that is top rank survival situation in the last 50-60 years.

I Wouldn't even know where to begin, words don't seem enough

To say that it's an aweful situation is an understatement. We have members dealing with tornadoes, floods and storms and we're praying for them.

My in-laws are driving back to Southern Ontario from Florida this week and haven't checked in along the way because they think we're being ridiculous in asking them too. A twister touched about an hour from the park they stay in every year and they seemed to think it was more of a novelity than a serious threat. Some people just insist on living in denile. Hope everyone here is proactive about it.

Be safe everyone!

To say that it's an aweful situation is an understatement. We have members deang with tornadoes, floods and storms and we're praying for them.

Be safe everyone!

Exactly.
It's a lot more fun to deal in hypotheticals than confront something this terrible.

-Blast

Dealing with random swarms of massive tornadoes is one of the least pleasant survival situations I can imagine.

I was shocked to hear that so many had been killed! We don't usually associate that kind of death count with tornadoes. I guess T.S. Eliot was right: "April is the cruellest (sic) month".

One year eons ago, I drove from SoCal to Maine. As I drove across Tornado Alley, I was amazed at the thousand and thousands of mobile homes in that area. And I couldn't see a single one with any indication of an underground shelter.

Do people think because tornadoes are on the ground for such short periods of time (relatively speaking) that they fall into the trap of 'It won't happen to us'? Do they quote The Law of Averages? Do they feel the same way as they hold the body of their child?

It is frustrating to read about things like this, the deaths that might have been prevent, if only... The old refrain, 'if only'.

Sue

it's time for a universal "reverse 911" severe weather warning system... make SAME weather alert technolog as prevalent in homes as a smoke detector

i see some of our posters who were there are starting to come on-line..for all the news i saw there was only one old fellow with a above ground,cement shelter.that was flooded with water and he said it took a couple guys to hold the door shut.he saved several people.

I considered posting something but the roll of mid-to-low level preparations is quite limited. Given that you may have just minutes warning, and even then you need somewhere to go, and realizing that after a tornadoes the odds are food and water aren't going to be a huge survival issue because tornadoes tracks are narrow, advocating a survival kit wouldn't seem to do much good. Even having one might not do much good if it is swept away.

I figured I could advocate keeping a weather radio on and set up to issue automatic alerts but this has been covered in depth elsewhere. I just don't have much more to say on that.

I considered saying something about building shelters, there are some reasonably inexpensive ways of building a shelter but shelters have been covered. Changes in building codes and methods might useful, many areas have minimal standards for wind resistance that might help in near-miss situations, and discussions on building construction never gather much interest.

And then there is the simple question of what can be said. It is sad and bad, but noting that doesn't change anything.