Olberman is showing tornado videos. NO FREAKING WAY

[nini]

would I live there :scared:



give me earthquakes ANY DAY!

[CatWoman]

1. saw it -- wasn't it AWESOME???!!???

I want one day to join some storm chasers.

I'm scared to death of them, yet hugely fascinated as well.

I lived in Indianapolis for 8 years. They call that area of the midwest "tornado alley".

[nini]

3. I would crap my pants if I saw one of those coming towards me

They are fascinating... but holy SHIT!!


:D

[KitchenWitch]

2. I am terrified of earthquakes

But I can go down to the basement to avoid a tornado.

[nini]

5. earthquakes can be scary... but if you're prepared you'll fair well.

I'd rather not know something is coming for hours or days.. That prolonged anxiety would make me nuts. Then to have it tear my house apart... uh no :scared:

[KitchenWitch]

6. Usually we get about 40 minutes notice for tornadoes.

NOAA weather radios are a gift from the gods...

[SoCalDem]

13. Greenish yellow sky is a dead giveaway..and dead still air

BEFORE hell is unleashed :) Greenish sky means get your shoes on, secure the pets so you can grab 'em in a hurry, and clear out the cobwebs from under the desk in the basement:)..and change the batteries in the flashlights & radios.. Tune it to weather central

[Nomad559]

4. I posted the video here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4300578

[nini]

7. Thanks

jeebus --- amazing!!

[SoCalDem]

8. I've had a taste of tornados, quakes & hurricanes.. Tornados are worst

little warning, and the ones that affected me were wee-hours ones.. no see-ums..just hear the roar and feel the hail & rain & wind..

hurricanes give a week of warnings...

quakes are USUALLY..shake shake shake..oooh did you feel that?

tornados are scariest

[mtnester]

10. Tornados at night are the WORST..cannot see them coming

but, if you live anywhere in the Tornado Belt, you know EXACTLY what the weather is doing at all times. You stay alert. During the day at least you can see what is going on.

Radar and weather alert radios are our friends. Believe me, one week ago sunday we were jolted out of bed when the weather alert radio set of a tornado warning for NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY, OHIO. Where do we live? NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY OHIO.

We knew the weather was bad....we were sleeping in our tennis shoes, all valuables were in the basement already, and flashlights, cameras, etc. charged and waiting for us in the basement. Purses, emergency clothes, car keys...all down there in advance.

[SoCalDem]

12. We lived smack dab in the middle of Kansas.. Once we had THREE

in one night in our town.. My friend and I were so pissed too, because we had weekend plans OUT OF TOWN, and we could not get OUT !!

The next morning, all the exits out of town were barricaded..

A tree hit my car (minor damage) and a corner of our roof was damaged..and we never saw the screen doors again:)

One hit at 1 am..the second at 3:30, and the last at 4:15..

No tornado sirens...

I was in the basement for the first 2, and then went back to bed.. the last one didn;t even wake me up :)_

[mtnester]

15. As a person in the "business" of emergency services...

you should NEVER rely on tornado sirens. They were never ever ever designed for you to hear in your house. They were meant as air raid warnings for during the day so you could take cover (WWII), or, it then migrated to calling in volunteer firefighters in rural areas during the day when many were farmers and could hear the thing because they were OUTSIDE.

With the way houses are built (and cars too) nowadays, they are so much more soundproofed. You really should go somewhere like Radio Shack and get a weather alert radio...it has batteries so that if your power is out you still get the alerts, and you can program them for specific warnings, and specific counties that you want to hear about.

Believe me, it WILL wake you up if it is anywhere near where you sleep and a warning is issued. Tornado sirens are also notorious for taking direct hit lightning strikes, so if you do have one so close as to hear it, if it gets zapped, you are S.O.L. Plus, you also have the human error factor in setting the tornado sirens off. If the encoder at the master location breaks, or you have someone who has never done it before, it go become a snafu of the human tragedy sort.

We did a decibel study in our area to determine how we could get every house to hear a tornado siren, and in our location, we would have to put one every 5 blocks, which would cost millions of dollars, and THEN it STILL would not be a guarantee that you would hear it in your house.

Please, get a weather alert radio. Give them as gifts for Christmas.

[Zomby Woof]

9. Last night The Wizard of Oz was on TNT

It all ties together... :o

*cackling of Wicked Witch* :D

I hear ya, sweetie! They came to Virginia once in a while, and we didn't have basements or storm cellars! I once watched the news and was told "tornadoes are hitting Chesapeake". I lived 15 miles from there, and when you lived in a house as basic as ours... :scared:

:loveya:

[SIU_Blue]

11. CNN was hilarious..

as they showed the video....

"We're going to show this, now, don't ever do this we don't like to see this kind of thing...wait, can we show that again for the viewers? Keep in mind, you shouldn't...wow! that is incredible...but don't do this kind of thing!!!!"

[RevCheesehead]

14. Be still, my heart....

Keith :loveya::loveya::loveya: