Did everyone survive the tornadoes yesterday?
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I live in West Tennessee and thankfully the tornadoes went past us this time. Still trying to recover from the ones that struck our neighborhood on April 2. Feel sorry for those people in middle tennessee.
847338
i read in a tornado book that i bought, tornado alley in the U.S. gets the most tornadoes in the whole world.  Conditions are just right for it here.  There is nowhere else that tornadoes are common, but tornadoes can happen anywhere
592391
I was at home in New Orleans. I live on the second floor of my building, so I didn't get flooded, but the whole neighborhood did.  I never realized just how loud a hurricane could be. Katrina is the fourth one I've stayed for, and it was the noisiest.  The worst moment was when the siding ripped off and slammed against the windows, then the laundry room roof blew off.
51152
Natural disaster...tornado, earthquake, etc.
162919
I am very scared!!! We had an article in our local paper a few weeks back about all the what ifs. I was very shaken by it. All the talks of millions dying and mass graves. Who wouldn't be scared. I have a son with asthma and they said the ones to die would be the elderly and ones with weakened lungs. I hope it never makes it here. It it does I already said I will shut up my house and my family will not leave. I will wear a mask to get fodd or thingsthat need to get done but my kids will not be casually infected.
370262
I heard there was one in the covington/ Abita springs area. Scary weather last night hu ?
587200
!!!!!!TORNADOES!!!!!!\n\nur siting right next 2 me hahahahaha!!!!
381061
From someone with a similar awe for tornadoes, and one who has yet to see a dustdevil (never been to that part of the country), I really have to say the answer is a pretty much consistant no.\n\nTornadoes can be much stronger and longer lived because they form in much more persistant conditions and extend from the ground up into the cloud.  Dustdevils indeed form due to the temperature differences near very strong convection (heating from the sun).  Dustdevils don't last very long and are much shallower.  I've never heard of a dustdevil causing damage either (though I suspect occasionally an exceptionally strong one might cause some minor damage similar to an F0 tornado).  I've seen videos of kids running and playing in them in a hay field before, so methinks you're right not to be worried about them... though I know I would be equally as wary of them coming from back east!\n\nHope I helped,\nShane
386250
I live right in tornado alley and some things that we get are flash light, a radio the runs off batteries, blankets, if you don't know how long you are go to have to take cover get some food like that you doesn't need to be refridgerated, you also hhave to have a first aide kit. If yo don't have a basement or storm shelter you may need a matterss, so you can cover yourself with while in a bathtub or a closet.
1135331
In past years, two people died when a tornado ripped through Batavia on September 3, 1993, and another tornado caused millions of dollars damage, but no fatalities, in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga on July 30, 1987\n\nsee if the following helps, plenty of pictures at the end
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For you information, we did NOT get aid immediately, it was nearly 1 week and a half after that we got ANY acknowledgment of being alive.  I live in Northwest Florida and we still have damage.  There are people with blue roofs still after nearly 2 years (Hurricane Ivan).  We had no help from anyone, we were completely ignored!  The gym at one of the local high schools had the roof ripped off, and just recently was it replaced.  The reason we were "better off" was that we actually prepared. I feel pity for them yes, but hardly guilt, they got relief faster than we did.
1159760
I live in Kansas and have been thru 6 really bad ones, and many warnings that were uneventful when it comes to the funnels themselves...The sky turns dark..hail occurs and heavy rains then a sudden calm happens just before the funnel touches down to the ground..It does sound loud like a freight train but I just say its a tornado sound now..Debris flies thru the air as well..Once saw a cow lifted and thrown onto a farm building roof..amazing but scary!Not something I like to live thru but have...
640312
True Story:   I stayed at home in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina, had plenty of supplies, food, water, cat food, etc.  There were 6 other people in my apartment building who also stayed.  3 of them were just as prepared as I, the other 3 had decided at the last minute to ride out the storm and thus had very little supplies.  When the flooding began, and we realized we were going to be stuck for a while, the 3 with no supplies immediately ate and drank all they had.  The other 3 kept to themselves and didn't share anything.  I took a hard look at what I had and decided it would be in my best interest to at least appear social, in case things got nasty later (these people were drug addicts with no drugs and becoming irate) so I gave them some of what I had and I pretended it was ALL I had.  I saw how they had been so wasteful with their own stuff.  I hoarded most of my food and water and never let them know just how much I did have.  Two days into the flood, they looted a bed and breakfast down the street, and they looted a pharmacy for drugs.  They shared the food from the B&B with me, because they thought I had shared my last with them.   After a week, I was forcibly evacuated onto a bus.  I carried with me the food I thought would be portable, crackers and tuna fish.  The other people on the bus had been removed from a hospital and hadn't eaten in three days.  I gave them everything I had, walked up and down the bus aisle in the dark, handing out crackers and holding out cans of tuna for people to dip into.  I'll never forget that trip.  So, to answer your question, the idea of charging money never entered my head.  My only concern was how long my supply would last.
472811
San Antonio resident here!\n\nDon't sweat the tornadoes.  They're actually quite rare here; in fact, I can't remember a bad tornado that has hit the city since Hurricane Gilbert spawned one way back in 1988.  This city is usually hot and dry, and severe storms are not common.
429312
Yes, but not to the extent that other places have them.  I've lived in New Mexico for 30 years and have only felt one earthquake -- and it was so mild that it caused no damage to anything or anybody.  We do have tornados, but I've never seen one in New Mexico.  With most of the state being at least half a mile above sea level, floods only happen in close vicinity to rivers or streams (we call them arroyos) after a heavy rain.  Smart people just stay away from them; other people drive their cars into them and die.
1044256
In our area we had a lot of wind damage & rain. Trees were knocked down & the power was out for about a day. Overall it wasn't as bad as we thought it would be.\n\nI remember getting in the car & riding around afterwards to see the damage. We took the video camera out & recorded it all. I guess we were bored.\n\nNC/SC has been lucky lately. We haven't had a really bad hurricane in a long time. The worst I remember is Hugo in 1989. That storm scared me so badly. I was about 14 at the time & living in Marlboro County, SC. The eye moved just to the west of us. It was really scary! Those were the highest wind speeds I had ever experienced. It's been 17 years since that category 4 (nearly 5) directly hit us. I am worried that this year we have another one like Hugo.
213282
Perhaps Jimbo and shaved lady ARE the authorities to be alerted.  \n\nThose storms were pretty nasty, from what I saw on the news.  Why not just move down here to New Orleans?  We have MUCH better weather!  LOL  \n\nLeave work early, go home, take a nap.