I do not have a basement, so in case of a tornado what should I do?
2006-08-29 07:34:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
In a trailer....a bathtub with a matress on top of you.
A prayer is good too.
2006-08-29 07:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Always go to the smallest room in the house, such as a closet, bathroom, or under a stairwell. But always stay away from windows. As this will provide a bit more support structurally around you. If you happen to be in a Mobile home and no place to go for shelter, get to the wall that will be hit first, so you end up on top of the rubble, instead of underneath it. I had asked this question after moving into a mobile home in tornado alley, with not even a shade tree in the yard!! My very wise grandmother told me this, and it does make perfect sense!!
2006-08-29 07:50:31 · answer #2 · answered by Gramms 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw one of those wacky video shows where the guy left his camera running during a tornado that came down on him in his house. Two people crawled into the bathtub and put a mattress over them and two people went into an interior closet. When the tornado passed, most of the house was pulled off the foundation. Everyone lived.
2006-08-29 07:42:22 · answer #3 · answered by Shyguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tornadoes are like a large vacuum cleaner pipe with attitude, check out what your vac can attach to and lift off the floor. Therefore you need something underground that is immovable, alternatively your basement, install a steel welded box, bolted to a huge mass/weighted object say the garage / basemet floor slab. Equipe the with provisions for a period of time and a bucket to pee in, nobody notices or even minds nature calls in the dark and allow for all for numbers of people that are going to be confined in there. A tornado or Hurricane or cyclone is non selective , they are all distructive if it flies if it can then it will. You could try chaining yourself to the toilet bowl under the stairs in a door way in the basement. But suggest it would be a funny dunny given the requirements. Be safe be prepared. Alternative, interstate travel at speed and death. magoooo
2016-03-27 00:18:45 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't have time to get out to a shelter, the bathroom is your best bet (bathtub)...but they have contractors who will tornado proof a room for a few thousand....good luck from Arkansas!!!
2006-08-29 07:40:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a room in the center of your house on the ground floor that has no windows.
2006-08-29 07:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by Colleen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the middle room of your house or a room with no windows also have something to cover yourself with
2006-08-29 10:43:45 · answer #7 · answered by novaicedogs9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a room with no windows and take down pics ,glass an such from shelf's
2006-08-29 07:39:40 · answer #8 · answered by steve 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋