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Where should you go during a tornado and where should you avoid?
During a tornado, go to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows, doors, and outside walls. Do not stay in a mobile home or seek shelter under a bridge or overpass.
Where do you go during a tornado if you have no basement and you live in a trailer?
If you live in a trailer with no basement, the safest place to go during a tornado is a designated storm shelter or a nearby sturdy building. If neither are available, seek shelter in a low-lying area such as a ditch and cover your head to protect yourself from flying debris. It's important to have a plan in place and know the safest options before a tornado occurs.
Is it safe to be in your car in the garage during a tornado?
No. It doesn't take a very strong tornado to pick up or flip a car. If you are in a car and a tornado is coming you should go to the nearest sturdy building or underground shelter. If no shelter is nearby get out of the car and lie in a ditch or depression.
Where is the Best Place to be if you are in your Car During a Tornado?
A car is not a good place to be. If a tornado is coming leave the vehicle and go to a sturdy building with a basement or to a storm shelter. If you are in the open and the tornado is still distant try to drive perpendicular or diagonal to its path (depending on what the road allows) to get out of its way. If the tornado is drawing near abandon the vehicle and lie in a ditch or depression.
Where should you go outside when a tornado occurs?
You should not even need to go outside during a tornado. Let's say you forgot something outside and a tornado is there. Should you go out? NO! Because it is very scary to go outside during a tornado. But you should gather your family together, and then go in a basement or closet. Try to keep safe.
Where do you go when you see a tornado?
When you see a tornado, go into a secure building or if there are none near you, huddle in a nearby ditch.
What should people in trailer homes do in case of tornado?
People who live in trailers should go to a sturdier building if a tornado threatens.
What do you do when there's a tornado and a fire alarm at the same time?
When there is a tornado,you get in the bath.But when there's a fire you get outside.Instead you go inside another building and get inside that bath.
What happens when a tornado happens?
People have to rush to their basements and hide when the tornado comes. If people are outside, they need to immediately go to the nearby building and hide.
What should you do if a tornado comes and you are in a highrise building?
If you are too high to get to the bottom floors, go to an interior hallway or better yet, a stairwell towards the middle of the building. The idea is to put as many walls between you and the tornado as possible. Stay away from windows as the greatest threat in a high rise building in a tornado is flying glass.
Where do you go if there is a tornado watch or warning in an apartmnt?
If there is a tornado watch there is no need to take shelter, just pay attention to local weather bulletins. If a tornado warning is issued go to an interior room or hallway on the first floor of your building. Stay away from windows.
How do tornadoes rip apart structures?
A tornado rips building by the wind speeds and other debris that the tornado is swirling around, so there are lots of things that a tornado can do to a building.
Where should you go during a tornado and where should you avoid?
During a tornado, go to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows, doors, and outside walls. Do not stay in a mobile home or seek shelter under a bridge or overpass.
How do you protect yourself from a tornado if you are in your car?
Go to a nearby study building if possible. If no shelter available and the tornado is still in the distance try to get out of the path by driving perpendicular (or diagonal depending on what the road will allow), to the tornado's movement. If the tornado is close and moving toward you get out of the car and lie in a ditch.
Why do people go to the store while there is a tornado warning or watch?
Many people do not may attention to there being a tornado watch, as it does not inidicate an immediate threat of tornado, so many people go about their ordinary business. A tornado warning often means that a tornado is minutes away from htting. So it is no so much that people go to the store as much as, they just happen to be there when the warning is issued. If a person is outside or in a car and a tornado is coming, they will often go to the nearest permanent building, which in some cases is a store.
How are most people killed or injured during a tornado?
people get injured or killed in a tornado whether they were close from the location of tornado or they have poor building anchorage so this poor building will destroy which will hurt or kill the people inside that building.
Where do you go if there is a flood and a tornado at the same time?
You should go to a room near the center of your house. If you can do so quickly, get to a sturdy building at a higher elevation.
