Sunday Science: Tornado Safety
While not as common as other parts of the Lower 48, at least a few tornadoes are reported each year in New England. As the severe weather season picks up here in the Northeast this spring season, Storm Team 10’s @AJMastrangelo provides some tornado safety tips.
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As someone who grew up in the Midwest, I think this is wonderful that you're doing this, and I think you need more.
Years ago, when friends were visiting from Chicago, we were in the basement of a mansion doing the tourist thing in Newport. The employee at the gift shop received a phone call from her father saying that there was a tornado, and she wanted to hop in her car and go home (hour off island). I told her she was in the basement of a granite mansion, and there was nowhere safer. She also couldn't say if it was a watch or a warning. When we got out to the car, we turned on the radio to listen as we tried to figure out where to go with pouring rain and two young girls. And the meteorologist on the radio was talking about "intermittent" tornadoes. And I realized that people here do not have the vocabulary to discuss these things because we almost never get them.
-Please let people know that in a warning, they should not run out and get into their car and try to drive anywhere.
-Let them know why they have to be out in the hallway and away from the outer part of the house.
-Let them know why the bathroom might be safer if they don't have a basement.
-Let them know to cover their headsand the backs of their neck with a hardcover book or something that will protect the neck and head if they can't get to those places.
– let them know what to do if the notice comes over the radio that one has touched down and they happen to be out driving in their car.