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YarnAddict (147 posts)
Why don't people in tornado-prone areas
have basementss?
That's something I've always wondered about. A bad tornado hit my hometown in Wisconsin a couple of years ago, and there was only one minor injury, and that is largely because virtually every home has a basement, and most people were in them.
Seems like people in Oklahoma and Texas would make that a priority.
There is an answer to that:
NutmegYankee (4,824 posts)
1. Sometimes the terrain prohibits it.
May be a high water table or shallow rock.
GoneOffShore (11,123 posts)
3. Many people have storm cellars.
Sometimes the tornadoes show up without much warning.
Perhaps you should investigate before you judge?
Demo_Chris (2,331 posts)
5. Most of us have no money and no shelter. nt
quinnox (15,676 posts)
7. I dunno. I wonder why people even live in tornado prone areas
I have heard they are one of the most scary weather phenomenons, I would move away from places like that.
Politicalboi (9,455 posts)
12. With Climate change
A lot of places have become scary places. I live in Ca and I would rather have an earthquake than a tornado any day.
GoneOffShore (11,123 posts)
14. There is nowhere left to move to.
And the tornadoes and hurricanes are only going to get stronger and more frequent.
LeftInTX (2,207 posts)
11. In South and Central Texas we have no topsoil. We got a few inches of soil.
Then it is solid limestone.
I don't live in tornado alley though.
Jerrell, Texas was hit by an F5 in 1997.
Therefore the possibility of a large tornado can occur in the Austin area. And I think the Jerrell tornado spawned an F3 in the Austin area.
San Antonio was hit by an F3 way back in 1927.
Yes, DUmmies. In the Midwest, we almost always have basements. And despite being "flyover country", we aren't stupid. We know to go to the basement when the tornado sirens are blaring. There are parts of the country where it simply isn't practical or doable.
