Tornado prep advice

[fuzzi]

Frozen water bottles in the freezer can help keep stuff cold with power outages.

Excellent advice. Frozen water bottles can be used in a cooler as well, to keep regularly accessed food at hand. Using a cooler helps avoid opening the refrigerator door excessively.

 

[RR Homestead]

Excellent advice here. I was 28 when we moved from Connecticut to upstate SC, just north of the I-85 corridor. The storms tend to track along that highway.

We rented a singlewide for the first couple years, "bugged out" to a friend's house a few times with children, dog, and cats. Saw a yellow-green tinged sky. Had the breath knocked out of me by the force of the rain hitting me while taking my cat to the car. Never saw or heard a tornado (sound like a train) though they came close.

If you are in a mobile home and the weather people tell you to leave, seriously consider it.

Don't be complaisant, but don't worry yourself, either. Crank radio, fresh batteries, water, all good ideas. Have important papers in a convenient place so you can grab them, or just scanned and saved in an unsent email.

If you get caught outside and it's coming lie face down on the lowest ground nearby, don't go under an overpass, dangerous place.

If you can't get into your shelter grab a blanket and head for the bathroom, or a closet in the middle of your house, lowest floor. Wrap yourself in the blanket and get in the tub. The blanket is for flying debris.

Now I'm living in hurricane country, but tornadoes get spawned from those. All the local TV channels go to tornado coverage nonstop on broadcast until the threat passes. No basement here, I'd go to our main bathroom if a storm got close.

Be aware, not scared.

Great advice. Thank you I should consider safety in the house too. Good idea. I told DH last night I want him to prep something in the shelter that can force the door open if something ends up against it. It opens out. That may be something we change down the line. I'm learning. So far not scared just trying to be prepared and not learn the hard way if possible. I will admit the colors of the sky thing is a little hard to wrap my head around. I also have no clue what a tornado really sounds like. Only on videos and movies which I'm sure are not realistic. Twister was always one of my favorite movies.

Frozen water bottles in the freezer can help keep stuff cold with power outages.

I usually have some of those for the rabbits but the freezers are sooooo full right now there's zero room. Good tip to remember though and probably handy if it's fresh drinkable water as it thaws. I don't worry about that with the rabbit bottles.

 

[fuzzi]

Short video of storm and green sky.

 

[RR Homestead]

Short video of storm and green sky.

Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. Be back in a bit after I recover from that video.

 

[Blue Sky]

Ryan Hall is an excellent source for weather. I watch him on YouTube. There is a forecast of thunderstorms and possible hail and tornadoes for the rest of this week for my area and the central part of the country. @RR Homestead it might be useful for you to follow that forecast to familiarize yourself with the terms and with warning procedures.

 

[RR Homestead]

Ryan Hall is an excellent source for weather. I watch him on YouTube. There is a forecast of thunderstorms and possible hail and tornadoes for the rest of this week for my area and the central part of the country. @RR Homestead it might be useful for you to follow that forecast to familiarize yourself with the terms and with warning procedures.

We're in the warning zone also for the end of the week. I've been following him since he was pretty new on youtube. It originally was to make sure our dear old friends in KY were ok and then it became an education for where we may want to move or definitely not move. I still don't understand a lot of it but am trying to learn. We also have done a lot of his Y'all Squad fundraisers to help those effected by weather disasters. We don't much anymore with him but still do with other groups that we can trust funds/help actually makes it to people who need it.