tornados

[Goodpasture]

We used to have scorpions....quite a few of them. If you go outside at night, with a black light, you will see quite a few. We got rid of ours pretty easily.......chickens LOVE them.

[ellenshel]

I grew up in Tulsa - and we are soon moving to Edmond - We had a cellar and used it several times - all our neighbors would come too. It was kind of fun ! However - I was in the multiple tornadoes in 1974 and saw a roof being lifted off a house, - also my husband was in a convenience store that got the roof sucked off it. Tornadoes are not to be taken lightly, and for your own piece of mind I would have one. If our new house does not have one, we will get one put in first thing.

[Cali_Okie_Girl]

Good Thinking!

[okietransplant]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Goodpasture
We get lots of tornados, but not that many houses have shelters. Mostly we sit on the porch with a glass of sweet tea and watch them go by......[/quote]

Even though I now have coffee on my monitor, I gave you a rep for that one! (Too funny, and mostly true! )

hey i don't think he was kidding! lol when we lived in norman and bad storms came though, everyone was in lawn chairs or on apt balconies watching the skies.

really put this transplant at ease!

i just made sure i bought a house with very old growth trees and the house was still standing after 90 yrs

[in_the_gloaming]

I used to live in Lawton, which is in tornado alley. While I lived there, my airline job required I pass and possess a valid weather license from the Bureau of Commerce and the Weather Bureau. Hence, I had to pass a federal test to get my license which very few people pass the first time around. I lived in Lawton for 12 years before my job dried up and I had to move away from there, something I didn't want to do!!!

I've never been in a tornado, but; I've been under one as it passed overhead. It was a big one..., five miles wide and three miles long! It came along the route most tornadoes travel thru that part of the country..., Midland, Odessa Texas, Wichita Falls, Lawton, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and on up towards Joplin Missouri.

Most tornadoes hop, skip and jump. Its like skipping a flat rock across a pond, where it bounces several times during the direction of its travel. Mostly, the damage from a tornado comes from the suction it creates as it spins. When windows in your house are closed during the storm, the suction of the wind sucks them outward causing your house to explode outwards, so if you're in one, remember to open the windows to minimize the suction. Then hide in a low area or a room without any windows!

Once, I was driving from Oklahoma City to Lawton on the H E Bailey Turnpike during an electrical storm. A large bolt of lightening struck the ground to the right hand side of me. Another large bolt of lightening struck the gound to the left hand side of me and a ball of electrical energy rolled across the turnpike, over the hood of my car and down the other side to connect with where the first bolt of energy hit. The hair on my arms and the back of my neck stood straight up. I could feel the tingle of the energy that had just passed thru my car, yet; I was perfectly safe because the tires on my car insulated me.