Lockout During A Tornado??

That does not make sense. A storm of that magnitude tends to make most people wanting shelter. To heck with the property and inventory. Its all going to be scattered two counties anyway.

 

Plenty of things around to throw through the glass and get inside. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

 

An people wonder why I prefer hurricanes over tornado's. Wild fires an tornado's...no thank you. At lest hurricanes give you a warning. Tornado are like drunk midgets with cannons. Random destruction, loss of life, etc. Entire street will be whole, the one over...every house is now a tooth pick.

I have nothing to say about the truck stop locking their doors, I just wanted to rant about tornado's.

Be safe out there folks, someone pissed off mother nature.

Sirscrapntruckalot - Not that I'm a tornado expert or anything but I would seek cover somewhere other then the truck...
From past storms, not the one posted in this thread.

 

Hmmm....preventable?

 

I was thinking how it would be so easy to apply lo lo against those doors. A minor crime balanced by a need to have shelter in the short time span with death or worse coming.

The orange flying semi trailers were from the Schneider yard in the Dallas area I think it was a few years ago. They stayed in the air with the rotation quite some distance. 14000 pounds of crush.

Warnings we get here in Arkansas. The problem is if they turn north or east when they don't. If I am not already following SPC when they toss the PDS onto Arkansas several times a year prior to a proper outbreak I would be attuned to the thunder while it's around 30 miles out and closing. Thats plenty of warning. 30 minutes or more. The last vilonia EF4 a few years ago we were following it as it crossed I40 above mayflower tossing cars and trucks, scattering the people all over the place creating a screaming mess. Before it went into Vilonia, stripped the bark off trees and crushed a 10 million elementry school about two weeks before opening. All steel and concrete. Crushed as well as wiping out many homes down to cement slabs. Just a broom to sweep it clean before rebuilding in most cases. And these were brick homes recently rebuilt from the first vilonia twister a few years before that.

One of my camcorder tapes have a funnel of one major EF3 that rose into the sky to pass over me and the school bunker that it missed that day. I am working on getting computer parts sufficient to capture that video at some point from the tape. Spotters and lawmen followed that one from Jacksonville Gravel Ridge area that day.

It wont be the last. This time most of the homes have rated shelters able to protect people next time.

 

A starcar parked between a swift and cre he was expecting damage already .. just not the way it happened.

 

I think the best emergency shelter in that short time frame..A ditch

 

Was at a shipper the other day their tornado shelter had a sign on it that stated employees only.

 

Here we have them, but thats the final absolute last resort. Its far better to be underground 6 feet or more. Remember some tornados are capable of pulling grass and about a foot of topsoil right out of the earth.

Some are in mobile homes. Those are not defensible. They usually get torn apart as they are rolled killing people inside of them like a tumbling dryer.

In Lancaster at the old dutch country theme park there used to be a tumbling house situation where you sit on a fixed bench seat inside lenghwise. Then the entire cabin with everything in it (Bolted to walls, floor etc) is set to rotating around you. House from Hell.

Its a simple ride for for some children find it difficult to accept and must be restrained because if they tried to get out of that seat it will hurt them or kill them.

 

Is there a correlation of tornadoes attacking megas and karma?