Weather(Tornado) Question

Laying down (low area is best) is mostly to try and protect you from flying debris. If you're unfortunate enough to be in the open and "directly hit" by a well developed tornado, you're going to end up like the cows in twister for a brief time. Best bet is to remain in the sleeper if there is no place for meaningful shelter nearby. Try and avoid being in the front near all the glass if you're stopped.

As many in dallas will tell you, if you're in or approaching a major metropolitan area and a tornado outbreak is ongoing there, DO NOT proceed into all of that traffic to perhaps find yourself stopped in traffic and stuck in a bad place. The news is on every radio station and everybody is trying to "see the tornado" ... it's rubber-necking to the extreme. Then there's the issues of downed power lines and trees in the roadway I forgot to mention. Tornados and straightline winds will demand you pay very close attention as you're driving through an area recently affected.

 

Very true. But I understand that drowning can also be somewhat life endangering also, lol. I'm picturing laying in the ditch, the water coming, and then having to figure out a plan B because plan A wasn't working out as I had originally planned.

So if I were to skip plan A, what could my plan B be?

 

Here's another thought. Although sometimes this stuff comes out of nowhere, if you've been paying attention to the weather forecasts and real-time warnings on NOAA radio - you could always take a break and allow the bad weather to move off before you head through the affected area.

 

Just so I don't come off as a total db. Here are my posts again. I post all possible weather warnings I can on our company's facebook page. Unfortunately I can't post it here because it's considered advertisement. If you would like it, pm me and I'll send it to you.

1st one is from: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...73-truckers-how-to-prepare-for-tornado-4.html

Second one is from: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...m-new-drivers/131610-tornadoes-and-you-5.html

 

im just wondering tho, i always had cobra radios, but never the weather one, does this radio auto breaks in your cb conv by giving a bad weather report then quits , so you can resume talking or ?