{"id":1309,"date":"2013-05-29T10:27:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T14:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2013-07-25T08:26:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T12:26:50","slug":"tornado-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/2013\/05\/29\/tornado-alley\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"

At around 11:30 p.m. last night my Red Cross application<\/a> sounded its siren and notified us that we had a tornado warning. This was not incredibly surprising news because my Red Cross app<\/a> had already been chiming its fool head off about severe thunderstorm warnings since 10:00 p.m. Approximately 15 seconds later the tornado siren in our county sounded. We already had Blue, my medication bin, our MacBooks and we were downstairs. Hey, priorities right?<\/p>\n

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As we were laying in the relative safety of the basement I had to wonder however just how safe we really were if a tornado actually did happen to swirl right over our neighborhood. Was lounging in the middle of the room, browsing the internet while our house was being destroyed on top of our heads going to cut it? As I clicked over to the local weather guy and he proclaimed that “folks in our area needed to take shelter immediately”, I decided that it’s a possibility that I need to look into this tornado situation a little further before something terrible happens and we are not prepared.<\/p>\n

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For some reason I always envisioned a basement as a tornado fortress that cannot be touched. Growing up, going into the basement was a only a suggestion, which made me super duper uncomfortable. At our lake house in the summer we didn’t even have a basement, which means when tornados would strike we would watch the weather to see which direction the storm was heading. Thankfully, our direction was never tapped in to Garmin. We watched a lot of storms pass by, but never any tornados.<\/p>\n

So, will our basement just protect us because we’re downstairs? Apparently not. The Weather Channel does a good job explaining where exactly we should be during a tornado.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2jSMa8VPd5E<\/p>\n

The Weather Channel also reviews what everyone should do if they are driving. I’ll give you a hint on this video in case you cannot watch it, please don’t climb up under an overpass, they are the most dangerous places to be during a tornado.<\/p>\n