My guest bath is an interior room, as is my main closet. But, the bathroom has a tub. Pull a mattress over you when you climb into the tub.

Weather app. If you don’t have one, download one. I use accuweather but there are a bunch out there.
Also the Villages radio station is extremely local!! just like the good old days, if something is happening they will let you know in a timely fashion.

I pick things up and put them down! Really?!

I know you’re kidding. How does an elderly person physically pull a queen mattress off of a bed, drag it across the room, fold it to clear the doorway into a bathroom and then ‘pull it over you when you climb into the tub’?!

Oh wait, I know, you got me...April (4) Fools Day! ;)

Your smart phone provides that via municipality’s broadcast. Also your phone should have an APP for that.

Yesterday's storm gave us an hour power outage. It was a good reminder to always have the necessities handy. Radio, batteries, flashlights, candles and lighter, water and food. Glad it all turned out ok.

Wow! Down here south of 44 we only had a short spurt of heavy rain and some wind. A tornado warning did pop up from my Weather Bug app, but otherwise just an average, quick storm for us with no power loss. Amazing the difference in weather conditions and impact just within The Villages.

Sign up for Emergency Alerts in Sumter Co.
 

Sumtercountysheriff.org
Sign up for alerts on this site if you live in Sumter County

Sign up for alerts on Sumter County Sheriff's web site. They send out weather & traffic alerts.

LOL! :popcorn:

The amount of time between knowing a tornado will hit you and the amount of time you have to get into the interior room is probably just enough. . never mind any mattress fantasy!

Tell me you have never lived with tornados without telling me you have never lived with tornados. :ohdear:

All good advice
Would you agree in any weather scenario involving power outages...that buying milk or other perishables might be I'll advised? That always puzzled me sans a generator

I have two weather apps, a TV that carries local news, local sheriff alerts, etc.

How you prepare really depends on where you live. For example, if I lived in the north part of TV I'd be more worried about power outages than if I lived in the south.

The other advantage of the Sumter county warning is that you get an alert when they will be spraying for mosquitoes. On those nights, I make sure to get the dog out early for his walk.

So true
I think many forget that this development sits in three counties. It's possible even in a moderate event that some wouldn't experience anything....or even notice. No different than any other part of the country when talking about several separate and distinct counties.

Midland makes NOAA weather alert radios with battery backup.

Tornadoes in TV
 

From The Villages News excerpt:

Florida's second worst tornado
outbreak was called the Groundhog
Day outbreak -- and it devastated
The Villages. It all began around 3
a.m. on Feb. 2, 2007. The outbreak
produced three tornadoes. The first
tornado grazed Wildwood on its
East-Northeast path toward The
Villages. At 3:10 a.m. it touched
down onto Bailey Trail as an EF-3
tornado, traveling at nearly 60 mph
while producing 160 mph winds
The tornado traveled across the
entire mid-section of The Villages as it raced East-Northeastward and
then exited five minutes later at 3:15
a.m. In those brief yet terrifying five
minutes, the tornado damaged
approximately 1,300 Villages
homes. Some homes only
experienced light damage while
others suffered massive
destruction.Even though most
residents were sound asleep when
the tornado hit, there were amazingly
no fatalities, but there were many injuries. After leaving The Villages, that first
tornado entered Lake County and
continued its destructive path into
trailer courts and unprepared
residents which resulted in several
deaths. A second tornado hit Deland
and a third tornado hit New Smyrna
Beach. The three Groundhog Day
tornadoes caused 21 deaths,
hundreds of injuries, and $218
million in damages
The Villages 2007 tornado happened
very fast and it could happen again.
The first tornado warning was not
issued until just 8 minutes before it
hit, plus no one saw the funnel cloud
because it was dark. By the time
residents were awakened by the
train-like roaring sound and the train-like roaring sound and the
violent battering of debris against
the walls and windows, it was too
late for many to get to their safe rooms...

In summary, prepare ahead: know where the safest place is in your house. Make sure you have a weather alert weather or weather app and have it loud enough to hear it if you are sleeping. It's almost impossible to see funnel clouds during the night, so time is important if it alerts you. My bedroom alert is set for tornado warnings only, because including tornado watches set it off too frequently in other S A.M E counties nearby. Last year the warnings went off several times during a few scary nights. My phone has apps set for a few bad weather alerts (silent) for a wider zone in case I am traveling about so I am aware. Tornadoes have happened here.