Tornado Preparedness

[Stetson]

Welllllll, that was fun.  Just had a tornado pass us to the west, about 4 miles. (Kaufman County Texas)

The bathroom is full of supplies.  Food, water, stuff for my daughter, ammo and firearms.
Now have to put it back in boxes.

The tornado is now in Dallas County

[never_retreat]

Funny I just saw a friend post on Facebook that he heard the sirens. In Nevada TX I believe.

[Jamisjockey]

Aunte Em! Aunte Em!  Glad you're okay man!

[Sergeant Bob]

Get out of the trailer!!!

[SADShooter]

I'm in the Dallas medical district. I think it passed within a mile of me.  I was prepared to scream and piss myself, and that's about it.

[Azrael256]

I was going to grab The Pugs and hed for the closet, but it was just rain by the time it got to Plano.

[charby]

Usually tornados come so fast that all you can do is get your butt to a safe place, let alone grab any possessions. Best I had when I heard one coming was to grab my dog and lay down in the bathtub.  As soon as I got in the tub it passed through my front yard.

[Stetson]

This really freaked my daughter out.  Shes turned into a micro demon.  We've fed her, and are now taking turns cleaning the kitchen, packing some more and holding her so she doesn' cry and scream anymore.  She didn't know what was happening but I think she got something from the vibes from us.  I tried to stay as calm as I could and get her and my wife in there while listening to the reports.

I had just closed the door when the wind an rain hit.  Nothing was destroyed in our area but the town we do all our business in was referred to as "Tornado Central" for a while.  I haven't heard from my friends in town so I'm assuming all is okay.  They know they can come here for whatever they need. 

I have a couple of friends in the Medical District also and one got pictures from the top of UT Southwestern complex of buildings.  They are pretty dark and nasty looking.  Another friend is up 75 at Dallas Presbyterian and they were without power most of the day.  I haven;t heard about or seen any damage reports yet.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

remind me to slap my wife for unplugging my weather alert radio

[Tallpine]

Lie down on the floor with a paper sack over your head ...?   

[grampster]

Tornados bad.  Saw my first cluster of them in 1956.  I was 12.  Funnels all around us.  Tore up the county and killed a lot of people.  F5 in Hudsonville and Standale.  The whole state got nailed that day.  Couple years later we were in Kentucky and the funnel was coming down the road behind us.  My dad pulled off the road at right angles and the thing missed us.  I remember seeing a tree flying in the air and a woman running across the street below the tree.

Palm Sunday, 1965. I was in LE.  Partner and I spotted a tornado and followed the funnel continuing to put out warnings.  We got ahead of it, unkowingly.  It came across the road right in front of us and killed the guy in a Nash car that was in front of us and blew us off the road into a field.  No damage to our car.  We spent the next several hours digging people out of the wreckage and transporting them to hospitals in our cruiser.  Several people died besides the guy in the car.

Spring of 67 another once came through Grand Rapids and took the roof of my FIL's house.  I was dispatching that day and was giving a running report to our cars from other officers.  I had to dispatch cars knowing the damn thing went right down their street.

I don't like tornados.  You need a basement or a nice deep hole in the gound with a very secure trap door.

[HankB]

Fortunately, I haven't had a tornado get dangerously close . . . too close for comfort, yes, but not actually threatening. (Of course, you only really know that AFTER the fact.)

A small tornado passed a couple of miles west of me some years back. I went by there about a week later, and you could see exactly where it passed over Hwy 71, west of Austin . . . you couldn't miss the path, the trees on both sides of the highway looked as if they'd been uprooted and mixed up by a giant egg beater some 50 yards wide.

Glad you're safe.