What are your experiences with tornado warnings ? what do you do when one is issued ?
May 22, 2010
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I live in Northeast Columbia, South Carolina and tornadoes never occur in my area so i never experienced one and I don’t want to experience one either. So what do You do when a tornado warning is issued for your area ?
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5 comments
Slayer on May 22, 2010 at 12:29 am
The best thing to do is to seek shelter in either the lowest part of your house. You need to stay away from windows as the glass can literally explode inward. If a warning has been issued, that means that a tornado or funnel cloud has been sighted.
Vixen on May 22, 2010 at 12:29 am
I have a phobia of tornadoes not because of what they could do to your or cause etc.. but the way it looks just freaks me out its soo phenomenal. I am afraid of looking at the ocean at a far distance as well it freaks me out. I know I have weird phobia’s lol
twistedtart on May 22, 2010 at 12:29 am
Go to the basement if you have one. If not find the most interior room in the place with no windows, and get down on the floor and cover your head. Then you wait and pray til it passes.
Miss on May 22, 2010 at 12:29 am
I awoke in a closet when I was five along with my sister and my mother because of a tornado that ravaged our small town. A closet, a basement, and possibly a downstairs bathroom is the place you want to be. You want to stay down until it blows over. Covering your head is a good idea along with prayers (pardon me there). Sometimes warnings are simply that, "warnings." You can usually tell, lol, trust me. The sky is sort of a greenish funky color and it sounds like a train. It just hits. It’s a bit of a nightmare, actually. When it is over, mind the broken glass. Phew!
Sara on May 22, 2010 at 12:29 am
A tornado watch means conditions are right for a tornado, a tornado warning means that it looks like tornados are headed your way.
Generally the bad signs from what I’ve seen are a sky that’s dark as night in the middle of the day, or dark at the top and light in a band on the bottom. Sometimes it’s one or two sides of the house and not like that in the other directions.
Hail often comes right along with it, so if it’s hailing, you could be about to see the twister.
Small tornados like giant black dust-devils can rise up in a field, do a little damage as they pass by, and then disappear. I had one of those twist up the sheet metal on an animal shelter on my back acres here in Texas.
Years before that, I lived through a tornado that struck in Pennsylvania, in an area that had never seen a tornado before (although twenty miles away there had been several through the years.) I remember I was more nervous about the deluge of rain and had discovered a small roof leak. I was getting a bucket under the leak when the tornado took out the the next street about 200 feet from my house. It came down the center of the street, snapped the electric poles in half, and overturned cars, but did not cause one injury to any living thing. So lucky!
Just yesterday we had another tornado warning here. Same black sky, the photo-sensitive yard lights all snapping on at three in the afternoon. Three waves of hail, torrential rains, lightning, the kids kept in school past their time for fear of putting them on the buses.
I wouldn’t be too sure that you’ll never see a tornado. Never thought I’d see one in my old town back East, but it was the worst one of the lot.