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Originally Posted by ilovetv
Please do not pooh-pooh us anymore for wisely checking on why we did not receive NWS alerts on our weather radios properly set and tested, and why we did not received our Code Red message when we're registered just fine for both cell and land line phones.
Most of us here "grew up with it" and are not "panicking". The damages incurred right here in TV and the 20 deaths (outside TV) from the tornado that hit here in TV in 2007 are not to be pooh-poohed.
I'm certain the people who wrote this among dozens of other accounts on the linked page would not pooh-pooh our inquiries today.
Note from a Village of Mallory Square resident after the tornado:
Please pass along the importance of a Weather Alert radio. We've had ours since March and I had just complained to my husband that it was a waste of money - since it had never gone off. Well, at 3:11 am it sounded. We took one look at the TV that mentioned 'new construction area of The Villages'. We went to the closet and were protected from flying glass and debris. Our bed was covered with glass shards and the sheets and mattress cover all have holes. We are sure that little $29.95 investment kept us from serious injury!!!!! Also, our thanks to all of the neighbors who came around with soup, water, coffee, etc. It will take us all some time to get other this horrible event, but what better place to do it.
It's ALWAYS a beautiful DAY in The Villages -- it's just the NIGHTS that are a little ROUGH!!!!!!
Pat & Roger
1542 Eastover Terrace
(I've got mine . . . and I pray it NEVER goes off!!)
Tornado
Storm damage video:
The Villages Tornado - YouTube
Photos from Daily Sun:
http://virginiatrace.com/tornado/The...aily%20Sun.pdf |
You are right of course to point out the real danger and the fact that a tornado did touch down here five years ago, but I didn't read that Dutchgirl was trying to pooh pooh anything, just trying with her words to
not escalate the fear for people who have lived in areas that seldom or never got a tornado warning. Those of us who have lived in tornado prone areas don't stand outside and look for them for sure, we know where we are going and what we are going to do and we do it. AND in so doing we
usually end up o.k. We have had a home blown apart as close as five down the street from us some years ago in Ohio. Thankfully, mercifully,
most times, life is spared if people seek the proper shelter.
Dutchgirl did bump my Hurricane preparedness thread. The Daily Sun had an insert a few weeks ago that addressed this whole thing and I found it very helpful.
BK Cunningham, I had not seen where to seek shelter in all three counties. I have printed it and it now lives inside my kitchen cupboard door. Thank you.