Tornado Hits Prattville, Alabama

[Foxx]

because people are stupid.
if the people in the tornado zone had 2 days notice, you would hear of the same amount or % of people who would "ride it out" thinking that it won't hit them.
please,..
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[DeathBus]

I wonder how well Tornados cut parts from cars? I wonder if they could correctly take a speedo bezel off of a split bus dash?
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[myzamboni]

[Banzai KG]

Wow...glad you and the family are safe.

I'm with myzamboni, earthquakes are less damaging depending on the nature of the magnitude. Foundations may get shifted and walls may crack, things falling off shelves, cars getting damaged from falling debris.
You really won't lose a whole house unless if it falls into a fault line.
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[marklaken]

f - earthquakes - all of the worst recorded disasters are accounted to earthquakes - tornados maybe the finger of god, but earthquakes are the ass-crack of god - when that f'er sits down, all life goes to shit

US hasn't had a good earthquake in quite sometime, but the rest of the world would take a tornado (or hurricane) anyday
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[helowrench]

I don't know which of those that I fear worse, I know that the tornados in N AL that I saw in 89-91 were some pretty nasty stuff. that was the year that that area had more tornados than any other part of the country.
OTOH hurricanes just flat out have the tendency to remove entire areas, not just towns) from the face of the map.
And then there are the earthquakes. those things just f#$# crap up. usually the roads remain fairly clear, allowing emergency crews to get in. unlike tornados, where roads are blocked for a mile or two, or hurricanes, where the raods have boats and houses laying in the roads for 20 miles or much more.

I had a friend come in from CA, when she was at my apartment with her BF, we had a tornado come through Hunstville, she was used to earthquakes, but was in the bathroom hunkered under a mattress, while BF and I (he was from AL as well) were on the balcony watching the tornado go by.

Yes alcohol was involved, but it was over a mile away.

Rob
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[draginwagen]

OH SHIT!

So were any of your VWs hurt?
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[volkswagenut]

Looks like a good parts car .
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[Zundfolge1432]

So how come so many people "ride out a hurricane"?

Same reason people engage in any form of risky behavior, riding motorcycles without a helmet or leathers, unprotected sex with strangers, breaking into someone's home and or any form of strong armed crime which could result in being shot to death. Etc,etc. I remember a simpler time in 1969 when a hurricane named Camile hit the Gulf Coast of MIssissippi resulting in the deaths of over 200 people. Some of the people tied themselves to trees "to watch the storm come in" they were killed by the storm surge and flying debris. Another group had a hurricane party on the third floor apartment. The entire building was decimated and most of them went missing presumed killed by the storm. Forty miles away we got only heavy rain storm. Ten years later hurricane Fredric hit as my Parents chose to "ride it out" they prayed to their Jesus as trees fell on their house and they were without power for nearly a month. They survived but vowed to never again to stay for a storm. The only way to ride it out is to be in an area well above the storm surge, have plenty of supplies, and be in a structure built of reinforced concrete or steel. I live in tornado alley now and I have a storm shelter out back