If so, do you have a shelter? If not, please explain why.
Do you live in a Tornado prone area of the country?
05/21/2013
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I'm in Kansas and made sure when I bought a house it had a finished basement. Just in case I also keep a large supply of water & other storm supplies for the family.
Originally posted by
Bignuf
If so, do you have a shelter? If not, please explain why.
05/21/2013
We get a fair amount of tornadoes here in Central Florida, they just aren't very strong. One of the disadvantages of living in this state is that the low elevation makes it nearly impossible to have any kind of underground structure.
05/21/2013
I do not live in a tornado prone area of the country, and as such do not have a shelter. That being said, we did get a tornado warning today!
05/21/2013
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My area isn't tornado prone...though not immune either. I live in an apartment with no basement or tornado shelter.
Originally posted by
Bignuf
If so, do you have a shelter? If not, please explain why.
05/21/2013
I don't but did while living in NC we got some occasionally. They are one of my biggest fears. Turned out a year after I moved or less a tornado wiped out a neighborhood less than 2 blocks from my old house and killed 3 people. Lucky I missed that.
05/21/2013
The area I live in is supposedly, "at risk." We've yet to see a tornado here in the almost eight years we've lived here. The closest we've gotten was a funnel cloud that formed over our house, but it quickly dissipated.
05/21/2013
I live on the west coast, so none here.
05/21/2013
I'm on the west coast also; there have been a few reports of small funnel clouds, but no actual tornadoes.
05/21/2013
no shelter becuse no tornadoes
05/21/2013
I'm in TX, so yeah, we have 'em. We've had a lot of watches here lately, one today in fact. I don't have a shelter, just a crappy apartment with a crappy bathtub.
05/21/2013
Tornadoes are rare here (NJ). We do have a basement, and that's where we'd shelter in the unlikely event of a tornado.
I used to live in the Midwest, but the house I lived in there did NOT have a basement or other shelter. Our plan was to shelter in the bathtub, which was right in the middle of the house. Fortunately, we never had to do that.
I used to live in the Midwest, but the house I lived in there did NOT have a basement or other shelter. Our plan was to shelter in the bathtub, which was right in the middle of the house. Fortunately, we never had to do that.
05/22/2013
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My apartment doesn't have a tornado shelter. Most people here don't have them. My friends have a basement, so I can hang out there when the tornado sirens go off.
Originally posted by
Bignuf
If so, do you have a shelter? If not, please explain why.
05/22/2013
No, and I would never move to a state that was. Tornadoes are one of my biggest fears. Been in one while on vacation, panicked and was sure it was going to end bad...NEVER want to experience that again. I think those storm chasers are NUTS!
05/22/2013
I live in California and there were some tornado warnings last year. Sounds weird, but it happened. I could never live in a tornado prone area. No way, no how.
05/22/2013
No tornadoes. But I am waiting to fall off into the ocean.
05/22/2013
I live in a tornado prone area.
05/22/2013
Twisters are not unknown in the chicago area, but I grew up about two hundred miles south of where I am now. In my hometown back in "75 a tornado came through and did quite a bit of damage with two deaths.
I am continually disappointed that more new construction in tornado prone areas is not of the substantially tornado resistant materials.
(Poured in place concrete walls using insulated concrete forms ICF are resistant to high winds as well as debris projectile impact)
I am continually disappointed that more new construction in tornado prone areas is not of the substantially tornado resistant materials.
(Poured in place concrete walls using insulated concrete forms ICF are resistant to high winds as well as debris projectile impact)
05/22/2013
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luckily, i do not live in a tornado prone area
Originally posted by
Bignuf
If so, do you have a shelter? If not, please explain why.
05/22/2013
I wouldn't say this area is tornado prone but we have had several warnings. My house doesn't have a basement, but the university is less than a mile away and I'm sure it has safe places.
05/22/2013
Iowa is definitely prone to tornadoes and unfortunately the house we're renting right now does not have a basement/shelter space. Nor do our neighbors houses. There are places we could go if we had enough lead time, but unfortunately most tornadoes don't give you that. So right now it's hope for the best if something happens, unfortunately When we buy a house a basement is definitely a priority for me.
I've never been through a full blown tornado strike but I've seen a couple of funnel clouds and definitely had to take shelter during tornado sirens both at work and home before.
I've never been through a full blown tornado strike but I've seen a couple of funnel clouds and definitely had to take shelter during tornado sirens both at work and home before.
05/22/2013
CutiePatootie
We're not very prone to tornados. But I think our basement counts as a "shelter"
05/22/2013
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luckily no
Originally posted by
Bignuf
If so, do you have a shelter? If not, please explain why.
05/22/2013
I live in CT and we get a few touch downs but they tend to be small tornados.
05/22/2013
I luckily live in an area where tornados are pretty unheard of so no shelter here.
05/22/2013
I live in a hurricane prone area.
05/22/2013
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nope
Originally posted by
Bignuf
If so, do you have a shelter? If not, please explain why.
05/22/2013
I am in Oklahoma city about 15 miles away from the Moore tornado site have family there and luckily they are okay they have a shelter but we don't we are renting a home but we are taking steps to getting our own home through habitat of humanity soon and we are gonna have one as soon as we can it is scary here but I love Oklahoma a lot
05/22/2013
It is rare for tornados to come here
05/22/2013
California... We only have earthquakes....
05/22/2013