[HeatherDawn]

I got this info in an e-mail today and it made me think of all the tornado questions that come up here. Just thought I would share.

Storm awareness program this weekend
Everyone is being invited to attend the free Storm Awareness For Everyone (SAFE) Program on Saturday, Jan. 31, at the City of Stillwater Community Center, 315 W. 8th Ave. The day will kick off at 10 a.m. with a display of storm-spotter and emergency management response vehicles until noon. That will be followed by presentations from OK-First and the National Weather Service Office, which will include safety and scientific weather information, between 1 and 3:30 p.m. The program will include question and answer sessions with area experts. For more information contact City of Stillwater Emergency Management at (405) 372-7484 or visit the web site at stillwater.org/seccc.

[polistra]

I really think the paranoia is misplaced. I lived in Oklahoma 15 years, scattered through the '50s and '70s. Each year there was at least one local tornado warning, but I never saw a tornado and never experienced damage.

For the last 18 years I've been in Spokane. We don't have tornados here, but my house was damaged by windstorms twice and by heavy snow twice. This winter two dozen business buildings were completely destroyed by snowload. That's tornado-style damage.

And yet we still think of tornados as scary and snow as pretty????

I'm strongly considering a return to Oklahoma, probably to Ponca.

Tornados give you a sporting chance. Snow and floods don't.

[Megafoxy]

When I loved in Coweta, we had a tornado over our house. It destroyed only one house, but it scared several people and everywhere we drove afterwards looked like ghost town. The sky was so black that night time critters were out and about. The was back in the spring of 2004.

[Rickd203]

I will take tornadoes in OK over tax collect collectors in CT any day. For the last 15 years I have lived under a constant unrelenting threat of being wiped out by high taxes. As bad as a tornado can be, the threat of being wiped out by one is quite rare.

[arjr]

Originally Posted by Rickd203

I will take tornadoes in OK over tax collect collectors in CT any day. For the last 15 years I have lived under a constant unrelenting threat of being wiped out by high taxes. As bad as a tornado can be, the threat of being wiped out by one is quite rare.

Taxados, I'm scared to death of them, because they hit every time you turn around here in NY.

LOL

[osugirl2]

I'm moving at the end of summer and I'm going to miss the tornados....lol. I love storm season around here, I wish I could have been a storm chaser

[weisgarber1]

More wonderful Oklahoma weather today.

[techienomad]

The sky gods have returned.

[old_grouch]

weisgarber1 wrote: More wonderful Oklahoma weather today.

Which, judging by the date, was sarcasm I assume. My husband and I have been considering Ardmore or Ada -- as we shivered here this winter in Penna. we have the Ardmore and Ada temperatures on our weather webpage, and except for one ice storm and a few days in the 20's, we would have gladly traded all winter. Yesterday and today we are getting a little respite here.

But my point was, tornadoes do scare me, and there was a scary one in Lone Grove yesterday -- they said half a mile wide. A number dead, I have seen numbers from 4 - 15. My question is, were those who died in storm shelters or safe rooms, or do you think they had not taken shelter?

Loss of a home is of course terrible and devastating, but I am more concerned about loss of life, and the circumstances where people die in tornadoes.

[Poltracker]

Originally Posted by old_grouch

weisgarber1 wrote: More wonderful Oklahoma weather today.

Which, judging by the date, was sarcasm I assume. My husband and I have been considering Ardmore or Ada -- as we shivered here this winter in Penna. we have the Ardmore and Ada temperatures on our weather webpage, and except for one ice storm and a few days in the 20's, we would have gladly traded all winter. Yesterday and today we are getting a little respite here.

But my point was, tornadoes do scare me, and there was a scary one in Lone Grove yesterday -- they said half a mile wide. A number dead, I have seen numbers from 4 - 15. My question is, were those who died in storm shelters or safe rooms, or do you think they had not taken shelter?

Loss of a home is of course terrible and devastating, but I am more concerned about loss of life, and the circumstances where people die in tornadoes.

It appeared most of those folks lived in a trailer park. My heart goes out to their families.