by Flack » Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:29 am
It's always cute to see people get worked up over tornadoes. All new FAA inspectors get (have) to spend three months here (OKC) for training. Our campus is crawling with out of town people every spring ... which is also tornado season. Inevitably there will be a tornado warning and those guys will get stuck in a basement somewhere or hear the sirens go off while they are at their hotel and run around panicking. The following day, the cafeteria will be filled with stories of how they nearly escaped death and how the tornado must've been "this close" to them ... (/eyeroll)
There's only one rule you need to remember when it comes to surviving a tornado: God hates churches and trailer parks, so don't be in either one during a tornado. I'm serious. Every time there's a tornado, either a trailer park or a church will get hit.
The only one that ever really scared me was the May 3, 1999 one. Then again, that one was so big and fast that they had to adjust the "F" scale since it was off the scale. There were a total of 66 tornadoes during that outbreak, one of them almost a mile wide. 50 people were killed and entire towns were wiped off the map. Yeah, that one was serious.
It's always cute to see people get worked up over tornadoes. All new FAA inspectors get (have) to spend three months here (OKC) for training. Our campus is crawling with out of town people every spring ... which is also tornado season. Inevitably there will be a tornado warning and those guys will get stuck in a basement somewhere or hear the sirens go off while they are at their hotel and run around panicking. The following day, the cafeteria will be filled with stories of how they nearly escaped death and how the tornado must've been "this close" to them ... (/eyeroll)
There's only one rule you need to remember when it comes to surviving a tornado: God hates churches and trailer parks, so don't be in either one during a tornado. I'm serious. Every time there's a tornado, either a trailer park or a church will get hit.
The only one that ever really scared me was the May 3, 1999 one. Then again, that one was so big and fast that they had to adjust the "F" scale since it was off the scale. There were a total of 66 tornadoes during that outbreak, one of them almost a mile wide. 50 people were killed and entire towns were wiped off the map. Yeah, that one was serious.