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Another tornado warning
Bubba Jr.
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This one only lasted for about 40 minutes before the all-clear.
So far this has been the worst year for tornadoes in this area.
Super glad I had a basement installed.
Joe
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Stay safe
I had a fradie hole dug 8 years ago. Been in it 2 times this year and should have been in it last night but I just put on clean underwear and went to sleep. Seen on news this morning that I would have been in the fradie hole if I had be awake.
Mommy always told us when a storm is coming at least put on clean underwear so as reduce the chance of being found with dirty underwear if the storm get you.
I think this "Put on clean underwear before taking shelter" should also be a suggestion that the weather people suggest when they issue a tornado watch/warning. (maybe put a extra pair of undies in your pocket)
if you have clean underwear on and are IN a tornadoe, I doubt they stay clean long………….
Don't worry about your underwear.
Go naked if you have to do it.
Every second counts. Every step counts.
It may be the last moments of your life.
We live in SE Wisc. and this has even the worst year for "Winds" that I can remember🤨
Maybe Depends would be an option.
Add new meaning to the term "It Depends".
The weather people are getting better at their predictions of such. They predicted a good possibility of such 2 days ago and the most likely time of day/night was close to correct also of the ones in Oklahoma yesterday.
Several years ago when people dug their cellars and lined the inside with logs, the floor was usually elevated with water under the flooring. Lighting if any was spoor. I've seen all kinds of snakes usually just their head peeking between the logs and bad insects in those old dug celler's. Almost as risky going into a dug cellar as facing the tornado. They also served as a root cellar for canned food storage. No solar lighting and cellULAR phones back then.
Call me a DA
Many years ago my sons were just Young fellows .
We had a nasty storm pop just after dark wife was at work
I up was up stairs watching the roof shingles standing straight up. My boys were yelling dad let's get in the base ment Hurry
For whatever reason, I said we will as soon as it gets bad (what a dumb thing to say watching the roof peal away)
We lost a huge section of our barn roof and a lot of shingles off the house we had to have the roof of the house replaced it was a small tornado per the weather report a few days later may have been it or just crazy straight line wind but it did a number on us
Never again will I be such a dummy or take chances
Now just go to the basement and wait it out not a big deal and don't feel like I lost points off my man card for it
Speaking of tornado stories…I grew up on the flatlands of eastern Arkansas, and several times we saw tornadoes pass along roughly the same path within sight of our house. On one occasion. our neighbor's house to the south (farmhand with several kids) was in the direct path, and the entire family beat it to their pickup truck parked inside a surplus Quonset hut to try to flee. Before they could make their escape, the tornado lifted the Quonset hut leaving them sitting exposed in the undamaged truck. Next day the farm owner's wife was out to survey the damage and remarked, "Well, I guess the Lord was with y'all." One of the younger kids spoke right up and said, "No ma'am, there wasn't room for anyone else in that truck!"😂
Tornados scare me more than any other type of weather. We rode out a hurricane while in the Navy, seas were rough but being inside a destroyer you felt as though you were safer.
My two tornado experiences were not bad at all compared to your current ones. The first was in boot camp at Great Lakes. We had to move to bottom floor inside the bathrooms in the barracks.
The second was closer. My wife was doing an errand for my business in a town 20 miles away. The business and all the cars in the parking lot got hit by a tornado about 10 minutes after she left the business.
All the cars in the parking lot were demolished and part of the building collapsed.
I think I'd be pullin' up stakes and moving before a tornado did it for me!
It sure is peaceful sittin' here on the edge of one of Earth's largest volcanoes.