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Post by jerry on Nov 30, 2009 22:23:06 GMT -5
Guess what, folks; we made it all the way through November without a single bad tornado.
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Post by larrywalker on Nov 30, 2009 23:10:05 GMT -5
amazing, really.
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Post by scoutmom on Nov 30, 2009 23:28:21 GMT -5
knock knock---knocking on wood....
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Post by jerry on Dec 1, 2009 7:59:59 GMT -5
Maybe they're all being saved for March & April.
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Post by gloria on Dec 1, 2009 8:32:18 GMT -5
I hope not. Maybe we will have a calm season.
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Post by Garland on Dec 1, 2009 9:01:44 GMT -5
I hope not. Maybe we will have a calm season. I'm like you, I hope it's a calm season also...living in a mobile home I don't need that type weather up here..... |
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Post by scoutmom on Dec 1, 2009 9:34:41 GMT -5
Same here, we also live in a mobile home. I think a double-wide wouldn't be any safer than a single wide. I hope it is calm. I have heard we are in for a cold winter.
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Post by gloria on Dec 1, 2009 11:28:31 GMT -5
Same here, we also live in a mobile home. I think a double-wide wouldn't be any safer than a single wide. I hope it is calm. I have heard we are in for a cold winter. I think it's supposed to be in the low 20's Sunday morning. |
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Post by jerry on Dec 1, 2009 11:42:40 GMT -5
I have a picture of a double wide that was flipped over on its roof during a tornado not long ago. It didn't even break the roofline; just lifted it up and dropped it on its topside. They had to demolish it even though the house was basically intact.
Best defense with ANY kind of house is a good hidey-hole, and maybe a New Testament if you think it will help.
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Post by cbk on Dec 1, 2009 13:33:39 GMT -5
Yes, hidey holes are great. Mine is right under my sunroom. Hopefully I won't ever have to use it. We sit down in a holler and from the looks of the trees it's been a LONG time since a big wind went through here. Of course that doesn't mean it can't.
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Post by gloria on Dec 1, 2009 15:32:46 GMT -5
Yes, hidey holes are great. Mine is right under my sunroom. Hopefully I won't ever have to use it. We sit down in a holler and from the looks of the trees it's been a LONG time since a big wind went through here. Of course that doesn't mean it can't. That's great Chris, do you have access from inside the sunroom or from inside the house? |
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Post by jerry on Dec 1, 2009 16:32:46 GMT -5
I've been in mine at least two dozen times since 1998.
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Post by kpolk on Dec 1, 2009 17:28:52 GMT -5
I have a picture of a double wide that was flipped over on its roof during a tornado not long ago. It didn't even break the roofline; just lifted it up and dropped it on its topside. They had to demolish it even though the house was basically intact. Best defense with ANY kind of house is a good hidey-hole, and maybe a New Testament if you think it will help. Back when I was a telephone repairman I worked the big tornados that hit Alabama back in 1972 or 1973. One of them hit Center Point really bad, killing at least one person. I drove up to one house in North East Centerpoint and saw a story and a half house that had been sitting on a full basement, it had been pulled off the basement and was now sitting in the backyard. It was mostly intact, some broken windows and missing shingles, but not much other damage. You could still open the front door and walk into an intact house. I also drove into one street where every house was reduced to what looked like matchsticks but one house was standing with a good bit of damage but was intact except for windows and some of the roof gone. I also climbed telephone poles that had pieces of pine straw driven into the poles like nails. Tornadoes scare me. |
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Post by jerry on Dec 1, 2009 17:35:55 GMT -5
They scare anyone who has good sense.
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Post by cbk on Dec 1, 2009 18:42:20 GMT -5
Yep Gloria, I can get into the shelter from inside or outside the house. I let the dogs use it and they think it's their own private "cave". The reason I do that is because I really don't want to jump into the shelter only to find that it is home to Mr. Hisssss. We have quite a few snakes here on the mountain and the dogs keep them in the woods where they belong. That's the same reason I let them go under the house. I have to go under there sometimes to make repairs and I rather have a loopy old dog trying to lick my face while I worked than some silly serpent.
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