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Get ready and seek solid structure shelters.
Good luck.

All of the Dallas area TexasCHLers be careful! Prayers for no tornadoes!

Looks like we are under a watch until 7:00pm.

good grief....I think I'd rather go back to a drought

It seems to me that tornadoes aim for trailer parks. Since I no longer live in a trailer park, I don't worry much anymore about tornadoes.

After living in this area for as many years as I am old and never once being hit by a tornado, I have given up on worrying about them.

I know we are not in OK or north of the red river, like our EDCC, you hope you have it when you need it. So, I think it is wise to invest in safe room in our garage (double as a large gun safe) or underground storm shelter ( Maybe on my future ranch).

If I had the money o build a home on a ranch I would also build a "safe room". I feel a sense of safety surrounded by houses for miles in any direction. It may be a false sense of security but it helps me sleep at night when I hear the Plano warning horns blaring.

True story... Last year a tornado came bouncing down in a line that took it across the front of my house. It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen. The guy right across the street from me had a fifteen year old tree knocked down in the street. A house in the circle at the end of my street lost limbs off two trees. A couple hundred yards further in either direction there was damage from the tornado. It even twisted the trees in a parking lot about a thousand yards away off in the center. I drove along the path. This thing has randomly bounced up and down as it traveled. Nothing but dumb luck stood between the folks who took damage and those of us that took none.

In doing an impromptu search titled "I hate tornadoes" I ran across an article talking about Westboro Baptist Church and their tweets on OK's deaths. To be honest, I wasn't surprised.

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If you clicked that link, I'm sorry for wasting your time.

In short, be ready to seek shelter and listen carefully. I hate tornadoes.

Those people are a special kind of stupid.

Holy Smoley folks, our offices are over off Central Expressway and legacy in Northeast Plano. One heck of a storm cell just went through. Tree limbs cracking lose, the whole bit. Now it is just raining but another is headed this way. This weather is really messing our schedule up. It is a bit hard working on an AC unit in a rain storm!

03Lightningrocks wrote:It seems to me that tornadoes aim for trailer parks. Since I no longer live in a trailer park, I don't worry much anymore about tornadoes.

After living in this area for as many years as I am old and never once being hit by a tornado, I have given up on worrying about them.

I saw the Jarrell tornado, I got to know several of the few survivors, very few of the homes that were destroyed were trailers. If you look at the damage from OK, they are showing brick homes and they are showing 70-80 year old survivors, but you do what you have to to sleep at night.

SewTexas wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:It seems to me that tornadoes aim for trailer parks. Since I no longer live in a trailer park, I don't worry much anymore about tornadoes.

After living in this area for as many years as I am old and never once being hit by a tornado, I have given up on worrying about them.

I saw the Jarrell tornado, I got to know several of the few survivors, very few of the homes that were destroyed were trailers. If you look at the damage from OK, they are showing brick homes and they are showing 70-80 year old survivors, but you do what you have to to sleep at night.

So, is there any point to your post, other than to argue my point?

03Lightningrocks wrote:

SewTexas wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:It seems to me that tornadoes aim for trailer parks. Since I no longer live in a trailer park, I don't worry much anymore about tornadoes.

After living in this area for as many years as I am old and never once being hit by a tornado, I have given up on worrying about them.

I saw the Jarrell tornado, I got to know several of the few survivors, very few of the homes that were destroyed were trailers. If you look at the damage from OK, they are showing brick homes and they are showing 70-80 year old survivors, but you do what you have to to sleep at night.

So, is there any point to your post, other than to argue my point?

I'm sorry I don't normally just lash out like that. I suppose I feeling emotional, a friend lost her niece to the OK tornado and at the time another family member hadn't been heard from....

Watches don't bother me, other than reduce my inclination to hang out in the middle of large fields (come to think of it, I don't really do that anyway... not enough AC). Warnings, OTOH, get my full and undivided attention. Except for that one time, when the sirens went off and the skies were nearly blue. 30ish minutes later, with the sirens sounding again, a funnel cloud moved down my street, directly over my house. So now I take tornado warnings seriously even when the weather doesn't seem so bad.

(Also, do "they" know how much lead time is associated with any given tornado warning? It seems like if people knew "oh, this siren means a tornado in about 30 minutes", maybe they could just leave the area? Dunno if the roads & highway infrastructure could handle the sudden traffic. And there's the issue of transit time — warnings are given to areas, not addresses — and I dunno how that would be handled.)

These days I don't understand how people can be caught unaware. With all the cellphones with smart phone stuff, weather apps that send you alerts and emails. I usually get an email from weather.com a notification on my ipad and my smartphone whenever a "watch" is in effect. Now I also have the RedCross Tornado App that will sound an alarm when there is a Tornado "Warning". Its LOUD no matter what setting your phone or iPad is on, its good for areas where you can't hear the sirens.

Seriously, if you tend to miss the sirens, or don't pay attention to the weather forecast much then you need to download the Red Cross Tornado App. It ONLY goes off if there is a Tornado Warning. Very Good app to have.