Living with tornadoes - how to reduce your risk!

[Gaz]

We had two tornado warnings in 24 hrs up here in Maine .....we left Colorado in part to escape the threat of tornadoes!

So here is our "Living with Tornadoes" information

http://www.almostafarmer.com/tornadoes/

I hope this information will make other folks be safe in this severe weather season. Stay safe folks!

Gaz
www.almostafarmer.com

 

[baymule]

In a mobile home: Get out! Even if your home is tied down, it is not as safe as an underground shelter or permanent, sturdy building. Go to one of those shelters, or to a nearby permanent structure, using your tornado evacuation plan. Most tornadoes can destroy even tied-down mobile homes; and it is best not to play the low odds that yours will make it.

Well, there you have it, we're dead! We are buying a double wide and there is no basement, no permanent structure, no nothing other than trees! Haha! We'll build barns, sheds and stuff, but nothing that would withstand a tornado. Fortunately, there aren't many there, but it only takes one. We get more of them here as spin-offs from hurricanes.

 

[canesisters]

I'm with ya @baymule. My doublewide is on top of a hill. The only other structure is a metal barn. I suppose we could take out chances running down the hill and jump in the creek......
Maybe we won't be crushed by trees...
Or bitten by snakes....
Or die in a few weeks from whatever might be in the water from the cow pasture upstream.....

 

[baymule]

I'm with ya @baymule.
Or die in a few weeks from whatever might be in the water from the cow pasture upstream.....
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Flesh eating virus? Cowamungus?

 

[canesisters]

 

[baymule]

I thought it was COWS that were up stream!

 

[canesisters]

Well it is... but after a nice long hot spell that creek starts to smell very similar to the barns at the state fair.

 

[Nyboy]

Cane I know what what you mean by mid summer my creek is nasty !!!! Looks like something creature from the black lagoon would live in.

 

[so lucky]

Bay, why don't you check into those home tornado shelters? My son-in-law sells the kind that you put in your garage floor, but there is another company here that sells the kind you put outside your house. I bet they are in Texas, too. Maybe you can build something that would also be used as a cellar. I think a person can even get a tax credit or something for them.

 

[baymule]

@so lucky I would love to build a root cellar, which could double as a storm shelter. But that is not a priority right now.....