The ole Ranger is pretty solid

[D Fresh]

We have the potential for hail and tornados tonight. When I first moved to KS 6 years ago I was deathly afraid of tornados and would hide in the basement. Nowadays I must have gotten used to them and our family preparedness plan is to go outside and see if we can spot them.

You've gone native!

Growing up, if we heard of a Tornado Warning in the neighboring country we'd load up a cooler and do our best to go try to find it.

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[Danny RN]

I grew up in western Nebraska and saw many, but only once "in" one and it ripped the roof off our house and it was scary as hell. One thing our house basically had concrete bunker for a basement. solid concrete box so as long as down there would probably be ok with a direct hit. I am not sure they build houses like that anymore.

 

[FerdRanger]

lived in Raleigh NC in the mid 80’s

a tornado flattened a K-Mart / shopping center next to the apartment complex we use to live in

the apartments were lower in elevation then the kmart and the tornado “skipped“ over the apartments

hurricanes tornados microbursts are a potential catastrophe anywhere now a days

have a plan friends

 

[WolfgangVTS]

The good ole "West By God Virginia" mountains protect us pretty well from most of the REALLY bad wind related stuff , still get some hail , and floods ...

I miss the mountains of West Virginia. She’ll always be my mountain home. I try to get back when I can, but most of my family has moved out or passed on at this point. I do make a good joyride back to Logan county from time to time. Those hot dogs at Morrison’s Drive In keep me coming back.

I never worried too much about tornadoes while I was there, but flooding was a different story. Ask anyone who remembers the Buffalo Creek flood of ‘72.

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