From checking the time of posts this morning, seems many of you were up early.... ;)

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:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmFOnQcIhsE&feature=related]The Villages Tornado - YouTube[/ame]

Photos from Daily Sun:
http://virginiatrace.com/tornado/The...aily%20Sun.pdf

We've had our weather radio for four years. We took it to the fire department to have it programmed since it gave information for Marion County and we live in Sumter. It went off today at 4:30 with the tornado warning. HOWEVER, hubbie got up, turned it off, and went back to bed. I found out this a.m. that it had been a tornado warning. The radio is now on MY side of the bed!

Good idea....;)

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.

No Action on My Weather Radio??
 

I've had our radio set by The Villages Fire Department, and we still don't get any alarms -- or calls! Help!!

I wonder what's going on. My radio has been very reliable in the past. We had it originally set up for three counties, and it was going off for areas that didn't impact us so we set it .....oops my weather alert radio just went off full blast for a Marion County thunderstorm warning. As I was saying, we then set it for Sumter County and it didn't go off this morning. Mike the reset it for the thee counties and we just got a Marion County alert.
I'll have to watch the weather on tv to see if the storm moves into Sumter County warning area and listen for my weather radio to scream.