I was in a purpose built shelter. I do not believe I would be alive if I was anywhere else.
Catastrophic, but the weird quirk of where stuff landed for me is that nothing that was in the actual house left the property. I got absolutely everything that I wouldn’t be able to replace and lost zero sentimental items.
We heard them but to be honest, they go off from time to time and we rarely go to the shelter. I know the official position is to run for shelter the second you hear them but most people treat them as an alert to check the detailed warnings, look at the radar and go look outside. I did all of the above and the combination made me decide to go into the shelter for the first time in like 3 years. We were down in plenty of time.
That’s because they do the sirens at the county level. For some reason when there’s a tornado in the county or even rotation in the county the sirens in the whole county will go off. Some of the counties in Oklahoma have a weird shape and so you end up with some tiny jutting out part of the county being where the storm is and then the sirens going off miles and miles away.
Ours are definitely localized around town, they just go off at the drop of a hat. People treat it more as “this is your sign to see if you need to take shelter” instead of “take shelter.”
Where were you in the house when it hit? Was it the best spot, in retrospect?
How bad was the damage to your house?
Did your tornado sirens work?
I was in a purpose built shelter. I do not believe I would be alive if I was anywhere else.
Catastrophic, but the weird quirk of where stuff landed for me is that nothing that was in the actual house left the property. I got absolutely everything that I wouldn’t be able to replace and lost zero sentimental items.
We heard them but to be honest, they go off from time to time and we rarely go to the shelter. I know the official position is to run for shelter the second you hear them but most people treat them as an alert to check the detailed warnings, look at the radar and go look outside. I did all of the above and the combination made me decide to go into the shelter for the first time in like 3 years. We were down in plenty of time.
That’s because they do the sirens at the county level. For some reason when there’s a tornado in the county or even rotation in the county the sirens in the whole county will go off. Some of the counties in Oklahoma have a weird shape and so you end up with some tiny jutting out part of the county being where the storm is and then the sirens going off miles and miles away.
Ours are definitely localized around town, they just go off at the drop of a hat. People treat it more as “this is your sign to see if you need to take shelter” instead of “take shelter.”