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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you are in a car and there are tornadoes around,
GET OUT and hit a ditch or any type of depression. Do not take shelter under overpasses.
If there are tornadoes around, the entire area could quickly develop them. They might drop right in front of you or worse.
I know people are loathe to leave their cars, but if these storms can toss 18 wheelers like toys, imagine what they can do to much smaller vehicles.
FYI!
Journeyman
(15,042 posts)Does the tunnel-effect of the overpass heighten the power of the wind? Or is the danger that the underpass will collapse? Or is there some other danger I just don't realize?
Excuse my ignorance. Here in South California we rarely encounter tornadoes, and those that do develop here tend to be small and quickly dissipate.
icymist
(15,888 posts)Check out this link from NOAA: [link:http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ddc/?n=over|
Journeyman
(15,042 posts)I thought that might be the problem.
greyl
(22,990 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 4, 2012, 05:20 AM - Edit history (1)
come in the form of uncontrollable flying. Your visibilty would be nil. The car would be small protection for the landing you would make.
Don't assume you that the conditions for driving would remain stable for you to drive along.
If you are well away, drive at a right angle to the path of the tornado.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)However, I have also heard that ditches fill with rain quickly during these storms & can quickly become a dangerous area offering the potential for drowning.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Don't get in a gully or extremely deep ditch. Even a smaller ditch could be dangerous in a stormburst, but be ready to get out in a hurry.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)Sounds like you're screwed either way! Stay in the care, get crushed; get out, get crushed; in ditch, drown. Damn, just damn. Remind me not to visit the mid-west during tornado season. I'll stick with our infrequent earthquakes here in the PNW.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)there was a killer tornado in Vancouver, Washington, took the lives of six people. I was there that day.