Just move out here and buy a bass boat with the money saved,i'll be glad to get out on the water and show ya where the bass are. Lol In all seriousness, there isn't enough money in the world to move me to that part of the country, we live in the so-called tornado alley here in the Bossier area, and those are usually the small F1-F-2s... those are scary enough.
Those are the ones I was talking about. The news over here interviewed a bunch of the survivors, and all of the survivors who had those shelters said that the door flung open when the tornado passed them. I'm sure that they'd hold up during an F2 or F3, but I'll take the garage shelters any day when we're talking about an F4 or F5.
I was in an underground outdoor cement cellar during the May 3rd, 1999 F5 tornado. I was at my SIL's house. Bear in mind that her house as well as the neighbor hood was probably about 1960s houses. That would also be the age of the storm cellar. While we were in that cellar during the tornado, the tornado actually ripped the door completely off the hinges. All of the sudden I noticed daylight in our shelter. I looked up and the door was completely gone. After it was all over, I walked through the neighborhood. All the doors of every storm shelter in the neighborhood were ripped off. I don't know if it was due to age of them or what. It was extremely scary to see sunlight. I'd thought about the movie "Twister" where the guy gets sucked out with the door. Actually, there was no sucking or vacuum action inside our cellar. We did get plastered with a lot of debris mainly dirt and fiberglass from insulation.
The outside air pressure drops so low during a tornado that the higher pressure inside a near-sealed shelter can blow the door out. It can be 200 pounds of pressure per foot. It is why heavy bars are often used (two or three of them) so that the door isn't held only by its tiny latch and hinges. Better shelters have angled pipes (of sufficient diameter) to the outside so that pressure will be equalized without blowing out the door. Hopefully.
NPR pissed me off with this tornado coverage, they push an agenda and Im really just starting to see this. First day, they had a story on Climate change and tornadoes, i believe the two have nothing to do with each other. Bad Tornadoes have occurred forever, but thats the first story they roll with, not the children that died, not the schools that were crushed. Climate Change, like we can stop tornadoes somehow through climate change.
How did you guys fare tonight, Shane? The last I heard from Okie was that she was okay but hadn't come out of her shelter, yet.
