There's a tornado headed towards my trailer park, what should I do?

Question

Should I go outside blow as hard as I can to make it go the other way? Or should I just open the window and watch?

Answer 1

Well if you live by cows or horses, stick around and watch. You can use this scale to determine what kind the tornado is.

Everybody knows about the Fujita Scale which measures the power of tornados. But nobody really knows what all those types of twisters do to COWS. So here is the MOOJITA Scale...

M0 Tornado - Cows in an open field are spun around parallel to the wind flow and become mildly annoyed.
M1 Tornado - Cows are tipped over and can't get up.
M2 Tornado - Cows begin rolling with the wind.
M3 Tornado - Cows tumble and bounce.
M4 Tornado - Cows are AIRBORN.
M5 Tornado - S T E A K ! ! !

Answer 2

I happen to live in "Tornado Alley". Remember the Boy Scout motto,"Be prepared"? This applies to tornadoes.


Pick a safe place in your home where family members could gather during a tornado. The safest place to be is underground, or as low to the ground as possible, and away from all windows. If you have a basement, make it your safe place. If you do not have a basement, consider an interior hallway or room on the lowest floor. Putting as many walls as you can between you and the outside will provide additional protection. Less than 2 percent of all tornadoes are powerful enough to completely destroy a sturdy building. Make sure there are no windows or glass doors in your safe place and keep this place uncluttered.

Consider having your tornado safe place reinforced. Additional reinforcement will add more protection from the damaging effects of tornado winds. Get more information from FEMA about building a tornado safe room. (See "Resources" section.)

If you are in a high-rise building, pick a place in a hallway in the center of the building. You may not have enough time to go to the lowest floor. Center hallways are often structurally the most reinforced part of a building.

If you live in a mobile home, choose a safe place in a nearby sturdy building. A sturdy building provides greater protection. If your mobile home park has a designated shelter, make it your safe place. Mobile homes are much more vulnerable to strong winds than site-built structures. Prior to 1994, most manufactured homes were not designed to withstand even moderate winds.

Discuss how you would be warned of an approaching tornado. Different communities have different ways of providing warnings. Many communities have sirens intended for outdoor warning purposes. Use a NOAA Weather Radio with a tone-alert feature to keep you aware of watches and warnings while you are indoors. Learn about your community's warning system. Make sure all family members know the name of the county or parish where you live or are traveling, because tornado watches and warnings are issued for a county or parish by name.

Learn about your community's warning system. Different communities have different ways of providing warnings. Many communities have sirens intended for outdoor warning purposes. Use a NOAA Weather Radio with a tone-alert feature to keep you aware of watches and warnings while you are indoors.

Conduct periodic tornado drills, so everyone remembers what to do when a tornado is approaching. Practice having everyone in the family go to your designated area in response to a tornado threat. Practicing your plan makes the appropriate response more of a reaction, requiring less thinking time during an actual emergency situation.

Check with your work and your children's schools and day care centers to learn tornado emergency plans. Every building has different safe places. It is important to know where they are and how to get there in an emergency.

Discuss tornadoes with your family. Everyone should know what to do in case all family members are not together. Discussing disaster ahead of time helps reduce fear and lets everyone know how to respond during a tornado.

Answer 3

Here's an idea...
How about you blow as hard as you can
to get the tornado to leave, Then you can open
your window and watch the show.

Answer 4

Well, you should get into the safest place that you could be and get there as quick as you can because when the tornados right outside your house you won't have a lot of time to think about it so i say you should get there now and hope for the best!!! good luck!!!!! ill pray for you!!!

Answer 5

We wrap ourselfs in tin fol and clime on proper of the trailer park landlady's ruf (She were given a double wide grew to develop into on it facet) and look fer them UFOs. We finally end up findin more effective possums and coons tho'

Answer 6

You should put on a house dress and curlers light up a cigarette, put on red lipstick (don't worry if it smears off your lips a little) go out side sit on the front porch (i.e. the cut up bit of artificial grass) pet your 18 dogs and wait for the news crew to come and tell them "how big the twister really was"

Answer 7

Get in the tornado shelter.
Your trailer park does have one, doesn't it?

Answer 8

You should batten down the hatches, and get out of the way. Oh yea, get out your video camera, CNN could use some new, good and up close tornado footage.

Answer 9

Grab a video camera, go stand outside and try to get the vid for TV!!

Answer 10

The first thing you should do in case of a tornado alert is to find suitable shelter, not think about it when it is about to hit.