Tornado alley

U.S.A. Oklahoma

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What is it like to live in Tornado alley? Are houses cheap in this area? How often do you have tornado warnings? What do you do if you are at work and your pets are home alone and there is a tornado warning? Thanks

oh BabyRN and I was just thinking, when reading another thread, of how sane you are and how much I liked you! LOL! (still like ya...just not sure about the sane part!LOL!)

oh BabyRN and I was just thinking, when reading another thread, of how sane you are and how much I liked you! LOL! (still like ya...just not sure about the sane part!LOL!)

Hey CNM... are you referring to me or Blackcat on the sanity question? The jury is still out on my sanity. :rotfl: But you are welcome to visit Oklahoma and sit with me on the front porch and watch the storms roll in. You just bring the popcorn. If we don't have anything severe in the Tulsa area, hey, we'll hope into the car and find one! Just like the meteorologists do. We'll have a tornado tour of our own... anyone wanna join us? From what I understand, tomorrow might be pretty good. ;)

Just wanted to comment. I was down at my BF's the other night when a severe storm rolled through. The lightning was absolutely spectacular. Nature's fireworks. It was just beautiful. One problem, he doesn't enjoy the severe weather as much as I do...

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I dont live in Oklahoma, but do live in Alabama. We have quite a few tornadoes ourselves. One I remember back in the early 90's tore my neighbors house apart, it never even knocked my trash can over outside. One in 94 or so, I was standing in my kitchen window looking at the house behind me during one, I turned around away for the window for no more than 1 min, when I turned back around, their house was gone. I also remember the one that mrdoc was speaking of on Palm Sunday. Then I also remember the F5 that hit April 8, 1998. That one killed 32 people across Alabama, my aunt and uncle were 2 of those people. Their neighborhood looked like a war zone. The church that all the news teams were at was destroyed, the cars from their parking lot were in the revene below the church, the neighborhood behind the church was gone. Almost my entire family lived in that area at the time. It happened on my best friends birthday, and the day before my son turned 9. After what I saw, from the neighborhoods, to the bodies of my aunt and uncle, I will not live somewhere without a storm shelter. Yes some thunderstorms are beautiful to watch, then there are the others.

:o CardioTrans I am sorry to hear that your aunt and uncle were killed in a tornado. That is very sad. I hope you will always be safe from tornadoes.

Tornadoes can be very scary things but I'm more afraid of going into our storm cellar!! There are creepy, crawly things living down there!! Does not seem to matter how much I clean it out, they come scuttering back in as soon as I leave. Here in Southeast Kansas we certainly have our fair share of the twisters. I've seen a couple in the air, never personally seen on on the ground, but have witnessed the aftermath. The F5 in Andover a few years ago was devastating.

Hey CNM... are you referring to me or Blackcat on the sanity question? The jury is still out on my sanity. :rotfl: But you are welcome to visit Oklahoma and sit with me on the front porch and watch the storms roll in. You just bring the popcorn. If we don't have anything severe in the Tulsa area, hey, we'll hope into the car and find one! Just like the meteorologists do. We'll have a tornado tour of our own... anyone wanna join us? From what I understand, tomorrow might be pretty good. ;)

WEll, maybe both actually!!! LOL! But I was referring to you definately! Thanks for the invite, but I think I'll pass!:rotfl:

I also love thunderstorms,I grew up in Ok.and witnessed many,many tornados.The one that hit Moore,Del City and Tinker airforce Base in May of 1999 was a F5.I do think it was the worst devastation I had ever seen.My twin sister had lost her house to fire in 97 and the tornado in 99. I have seen her have to start over 2 times in 4 years. My neice has had to replace all her posessions 2 times. I remember cleaning out her pool and there was so much stuff you could not believe,but when you pull out dead animals that is enough to change your mind. I still love the lightning, and thunder storms,but I do not mess with tornado warnings.I know how lucky our family was not to lose anyone,but some did.

Thanks for your messages. :o Lucky 928 that is so sad to hear that your twin sister has lost 2 homes! How tragic! Cleaning out that pool must have been something!!! Pulling out dead animals too. I have decided not to take the "tornado tour" after all.

WEll, maybe both actually!!! LOL! But I was referring to you definately! Thanks for the invite, but I think I'll pass!:rotfl:

Maybe you'll change your mind one day, and you and Blackcat99 (and anyone else) just come on down for a few days of tornado chasing! ;) Really, I do understand why some people wouldn't want to do this. I mean, one has to take precautions and some people still insist on doing stupid things. Watching from the comfort of your own living room TV is fine... it's proven to be much safer, unless you're in the path of an oncoming tornado. ;)

Thanks for your messages. :o Lucky 928 that is so sad to hear that your twin sister has lost 2 homes! How tragic! Cleaning out that pool must have been something!!! Pulling out dead animals too. I have decided not to take the "tornado tour" after all.

Ohhhh... darn! That might've been a lot of fun. I do agree with you that it's sad to watch homes being destroyed, but watching one going through a tall grass prairie with no buildings being destroyed is absolutely awesome.

A year ago I was "tornado chasing" with a guy. We were heading right toward it, but we couldn't see it. We started to give up and turned down a street and both of use spotted a huge tornado at the same time. We yelled as it was "rain wrapped" and headed right for us! That's why we couldn't see it, it was enveloping the rain in it's vortex and almost hid perfectly within the rest of the clouds. You haven't ridden any thrill ride until you have driven 90+ mph on Oklahoma back roads trying to escape from an F4 tornado.

Thanks BabyRN2b

:uhoh21: I am shocked to hear that your dad and your brother were watching a DVD when there was a tornado just a few miles away!!!

I just saw the TV news right now. How scary that tornado looked to me!

Thanks for gving me more information about tornadoes. Wow! Code Black!

That must be so frightening for both the patients and staff.

I was reminded of one more incident that was worse than my dad and brother watching a video instead of storm coverage. When the weather is bad, local stations will preempt national TV programs. They encourage everyone in the path of a tornado to seek cover and tune to a local TV or radio station for the latest. What really got me was that they were preempting national programming for coverage of a large tornado in Muskogee (I was missing Survivor! *sniff sniff* :p ). However, EVERYONE in this town was gathered at a park to WATCH this massive tornado! Law enforcement was trying to get everyone to get home and take cover, but these guys are insisting on staying outside to watch this tornado! This was a very large group, not just a dozen people. LE was having a fit, and I agree, this was a rather stupid thing for people to do. There wasn't a covered area in the park, and if it actually hit the park, this could have turned quite tragic. Some people... :uhoh21:

I think that I might like to go tornado chasin some time. One of the things that I get excited about when a storm comes up is the lightening that bolts across the sky. I don't like to be hit by lightening, but I sure like to watch it.

Walter :chuckle

Maybe you'll change your mind one day, and you and Blackcat99 (and anyone else) just come on down for a few days of tornado chasing! ;) Really, I do understand why some people wouldn't want to do this. I mean, one has to take precautions and some people still insist on doing stupid things. Watching from the comfort of your own living room TV is fine... it's proven to be much safer, unless you're in the path of an oncoming tornado. ;)

Ohhhh... darn! That might've been a lot of fun. I do agree with you that it's sad to watch homes being destroyed, but watching one going through a tall grass prairie with no buildings being destroyed is absolutely awesome.

A year ago I was "tornado chasing" with a guy. We were heading right toward it, but we couldn't see it. We started to give up and turned down a street and both of use spotted a huge tornado at the same time. We yelled as it was "rain wrapped" and headed right for us! That's why we couldn't see it, it was enveloping the rain in it's vortex and almost hid perfectly within the rest of the clouds. You haven't ridden any thrill ride until you have driven 90+ mph on Oklahoma back roads trying to escape from an F4 tornado.

:chuckle Thanks so much for your great messages. OK BabyRN2Be you have convinced me that I must go on a "tornado tour" someday. Yes I would really love to see a tornado going through a prairie and not destroying people's homes. That would be great! Yes let's all get together someday and go "tornado chasing". That must have been one fantastic "thrill ride" you got going 90 plus mph on Oklahoma back roads trying to escape that F4 TORNADO! How exciting that must have been! That's also amazing to hear about that large group of people who insisted on staying outside at that park with no protection to watch that massive tornado! Wow!!!

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