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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
For the love of tshirts.... WTF is up with all these tornadoes? We've been having some janked up weather in Metro Detroit but mainly severe thunderstorms. A few days ago a tornado hit about an hour or so north of us. We're supposed to have bad weather tonight, but right now the sky is bright blue on one side, hazy blue on the other. Ugh. But the lightening at 4am made my drive home a lil more exciting.... it was one of the coolest lightening shows I've ever seen.
Everyone in tornado alley, stay safe and obviuosly don't ignore any signals, if there are any.
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Oklahoma has some excellent emergency management infrastructure. We have tornado sirens throughout most communities that let you know when to take cover (kind of like air raid sirens). I'm sure many other communities are similar. Our weather casters and storm chaser people basically tell us exactly where anything is. That's why we usually have such low death tolls as compared with other areas.
For example in 1999 when we had the F5 take out large chunks of Midwest city (that's an actual funnell over a mile wide) there were only 20 deaths.
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