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Old 11-19-2016, 07:48 PM
 
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Wind aka Tornado risk is pretty minor. NOt that it's worth preparing for but still.

THe eventual St. Louis EQ is the big risk to anyone in the area.
I agree. Even the good Friday tornado while it was large, still didn't kill anyone. A powerful earthquake could kill thousands. If the New Madrid had a big one, Memphis would be hit hard too along with St. Louis.

Worse case getting hit by a powerful tornado is what happened in Joplin. I'm still surprised the Joplin tornado death toll wasn't higher. Same with the 2013 Moore tornado didn't have a really high death toll.
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Old 11-20-2016, 04:20 PM
 
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Worse case getting hit by a powerful tornado is what happened in Joplin. I'm still surprised the Joplin tornado death toll wasn't higher. Same with the 2013 Moore tornado didn't have a really high death toll.
Joplin was a good example of two good things-- enough warning for people to get into safe places and a community whose dwellings were built for, and ready for, tornadoes. We drove up 44 on the Sunday after the tornado and even from the freeway, the property damage we saw was astonishing-- it looked like pictures of Hiroshima or Dresden. But the staff at Cracker Barrel were cheerful and thankful for the warning and that they had good places to go for protection, even though a couple of them had their houses destroyed.

This is a good lesson for the OP if (s)he's still reading this-- you can't outrun a tornado but you can survive it if your home has a sturdy basement and you don't do stupid things like come up out of the basement just to see what tornadoes look like. That's what the Weather Channel is for. Keep some food and water in the basement, some blankets, and a place to sleep if necessary-- cots work for us. Board games or a deck of cards are good if the electricity is out for any length of time. Get a weather radio that will pick up the emergency broadcast signal.

Hug your family.
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Old 11-21-2016, 10:52 PM
 
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Joplin was a good example of two good things-- enough warning for people to get into safe places and a community whose dwellings were built for, and ready for, tornadoes. We drove up 44 on the Sunday after the tornado and even from the freeway, the property damage we saw was astonishing-- it looked like pictures of Hiroshima or Dresden. But the staff at Cracker Barrel were cheerful and thankful for the warning and that they had good places to go for protection, even though a couple of them had their houses destroyed.

This is a good lesson for the OP if (s)he's still reading this-- you can't outrun a tornado but you can survive it if your home has a sturdy basement and you don't do stupid things like come up out of the basement just to see what tornadoes look like. That's what the Weather Channel is for. Keep some food and water in the basement, some blankets, and a place to sleep if necessary-- cots work for us. Board games or a deck of cards are good if the electricity is out for any length of time. Get a weather radio that will pick up the emergency broadcast signal.

Hug your family.
There is a couple videos on youtube of a storm chasing tour van outrunning the Joplin tornado. At one point only about 100 yards from it as they get on the highway just in time.

The sunset hills tornado I was at work in crestwood during it on Watson road. I'd say the tornado was under 150 yards from us just down the street. We had insulation and pieces of power polls in our parking lot from the lines snapping. I was pretty awesome watching the power of it and the power lines snapping sideways and watching them snap in half. Took me almost hour and a half to get him because of all the roads closed but I got to drive by all the damage.

I still wonder about the Good Friday tornado and how no one died in an EF4 passing through a major area during the evening hours when people are out on a Friday night.
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Old 11-22-2016, 10:33 AM
 
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Hey, on the subject of tornado's, I live in Grandview, MO, now, but my wife and I lived through the large tornado in Dodge City, Kansas, on May 25th, 2016. We went down to our basement, which had dirt floors to it. We waited it out, earlier we heard very fierce winds and hail spraying all over. Fortunately we had a garage, so I could stow the car away ahead of the tornado's arrival there. We lived in central-south Dodge City, and the tornado, which had at least 5 appendages to it for at least part of it's run through Dodge, turned westerly just before it would have hit our part of town. It went west, and then north by northeast and towards central Kansas. Whew! No one was killed. A workmate's house and vehicles were hit, they suffered big losses to their house and to the vehicles. A couple of elderly women were ambulanced to Western Plains Medical Center, and they were all right after a short hospital visit.


So we dodged the storm, pardon the pun. We got the "hell outta Dodge City" in August of this year and came to the Kansas City, MO, area.
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Old 11-28-2016, 07:33 PM
 
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Wind aka Tornado risk is pretty minor. NOt that it's worth preparing for but still.

THe eventual St. Louis EQ is the big risk to anyone in the area.

True my wife where she works they are continually preparing for the big EQ.


Really though they have to be ready for anything around here. Earth Quakes, Tornadoes, Brush Fires and Floods.


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