Gotta love Texas during tornado season.

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TANúñez

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Joined: Jul. 10 2003
From: TEXAS

Gotta love Texas during tornado season.

Thought I would share. Texas tornado season runs March, April and May. It's been a bad tornado season for the surrounding states all along tornado alley. Especially Alabama and Oklahoma had a bad one yesterday. Around the Dallas area they were popping up all over the place for a good part of the evening. This one was on my street yesterday! luckily, it didn't develop into much. It wasn't on the ground very long.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 26 2011 1:49:33

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 26 2011 3:32:17

TANúñez

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RE: Gotta love Texas during tornado ... (in reply to Guest)

Yeah I took the pic with my iPhone. I was inside playing Call of Duty Black Ops with my daughter and heard the tornado sirens. I went outside to take a look around (yeah, smart) and I saw a thick funnel like cloud. The one pictured below. It quickly morphed into the first photo.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 26 2011 13:42:47

Richard Jernigan

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From: Austin, Texas USA

RE: Gotta love Texas during tornado ... (in reply to TANúñez)

Congratulations on your narrow escape.

My mother grew up on a family farm in northwestern Oklahoma at the base of the panhandle. Tornados were a regular occurrence. She left when she was 18. Her family moved to far South Texas where tornados are extremely rare.

When I was 9 or 10 I went with my mother, her mother and one of her sisters on a visit to Woodward and Mooreland, the two nearest towns to the farm. The farmhouse was wrecked, the fencerows were heaped with dirt as a result of the Dust Bowl. They left just in time.

The only thing left more or less intact was the earthen cellar. It was a little way from the house. It was used as a cool place to store root vegetables, apples, canned food in jars, and salted beef in barrels through the hard winters.

It was also used as a tornado shelter. The ceiling was at least four feet below ground level, reinforced with logs that were quite scarce on that grassland prairie. It had a heavy steel door that would have been a considerable expense.

My mother would shake her head and mutter about people living in tornado country without a storm cellar. But that's the way it's done nowadays.

RNJ

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 26 2011 19:26:30

TANúñez

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RE: Gotta love Texas during tornado ... (in reply to Richard Jernigan)

I was thinking of that last night. Houses nowadays do not have storm cellars. You'd think that was a must in houses along Tornado alley. I am really thinking about building one on my next home. We are planning on getting a new home soon. I wonder what something like that would cost to have the contractor build?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 27 2011 1:38:28

Ron.M

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RE: Gotta love Texas during tornado ... (in reply to TANúñez)

quote:

I am really thinking about building one on my next home.

Tom, you could do it up like a seedy Flamenco bar inside and use it as a practice room as well...

cheers,

Ron

(Ps: Jeez, that tornado picture looks scary. Glad we don't get that sort of stuff here!)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 27 2011 8:04:16

TANúñez

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From: TEXAS

RE: Gotta love Texas during tornado ... (in reply to Ron.M)

An excellent idea Ron. I fear I would start spending all my time down there though. No, wife, kids or dog. Just me, a few guitars and some Guinness.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 27 2011 12:05:44

Pgh_flamenco

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RE: Gotta love Texas during tornado ... (in reply to TANúñez)

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I was thinking of that last night. Houses nowadays do not have storm cellars. You'd think that was a must in houses along Tornado alley. I am really thinking about building one on my next home. We are planning on getting a new home soon. I wonder what something like that would cost to have the contractor build?

I heard a US governmental agency will grant or rebate $1,500 for a project like this. How can people survive an EF5 tornado without a shelter like this? It might be a good investment.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 28 2011 18:58:09

TANúñez

Posts: 2559
Joined: Jul. 10 2003
From: TEXAS

RE: Gotta love Texas during tornado ... (in reply to Pgh_flamenco)

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I heard a US governmental agency will grant or rebate $1,500 for a project like this. How can people survive an EF5 tornado without a shelter like this? It might be a good investment.

I'll look into this. The answer to your question...I would say a miracle.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 31 2011 12:19:29