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Also being from the East Coast (Massachusetts) where tornados are rarely experienced and having recently purchased in The Villages, I wondered what safety precautions to take when a tornado warning was posted. I am buying a good weather radio programmed to provide alerts to The Villages area. Also found these safety tips for dwellings without basements:


In a house with no basement, a dorm, or an apartment: Avoid windows. Go to the lowest floor, small center room (like a bathroom or closet), under a stairwell, or in an interior hallway with no windows. Crouch as low as possible to the floor, facing down; and cover your head with your hands. A bath tub may offer a shell of partial protection. Even in an interior room, you should cover yourself with some sort of thick padding (mattress, blankets, etc.), to protect against falling debris in case the roof and ceiling fail. A helmet can offer some protection against head injury.

The best advise I adhere to is......"Plan for the worst and hope for the best".
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Also being from the East Coast (Massachusetts) where tornados are rarely experienced and having recently purchased in The Villages, I wondered what safety precautions to take when a tornado warning was posted. I am buying a good weather radio programmed to provide alerts to The Villages area. Also found these safety tips for dwellings without basements:


In a house with no basement, a dorm, or an apartment: Avoid windows. Go to the lowest floor, small center room (like a bathroom or closet), under a stairwell, or in an interior hallway with no windows. Crouch as low as possible to the floor, facing down; and cover your head with your hands. A bath tub may offer a shell of partial protection. Even in an interior room, you should cover yourself with some sort of thick padding (mattress, blankets, etc.), to protect against falling debris in case the roof and ceiling fail. A helmet can offer some protection against head injury.

The best advise I adhere to is......"Plan for the worst and hope for the best".
As Hurricane season comes closer, The Daily Sun will soon give us a list of instructions.

Unfortunately, a basement is the best shelter from a tornado and basements cannot be built here.

Glad to have a nice big walk in closet with no windows. Every area has it's own particular danger, from earth quakes to water spouts, from sea to shining sea.

Enjoy this day and this moment and don't sweat the big stuff.
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Having never before lived in area subject to tornados...I wonder if the block construction of our Gardenia model offers any better protection than a frame home. I understand the roof is still a weak point, This question relates to comments about getting centrally located within the home. Perhaps this refers to getting away from windows. If that is the case, then our laundry room or master bedroom (oops...owner's suite) closet seems the best place to be under warnings.
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This particular event in the picture, took place before those constant warnings. Local weather meteorologists were on TV, but the national warnings weren't in use here. In that storm, no one in The Villages was hurt. You head to an interior closet or hallway, or the guest bathroom if it doesn't have an exterior wall, cover yourself with something and hold on...
Poo, if you are referring to the 2007 Groundhog Day tornado, I think you meant to say no fatalities in TV. There were numerous injuries in TV, mostly from flying glass and debris, about 25 of which were serious enough to require medical attention. And unfortunately, the tornado went on towards the coast killing 21 in all, mostly those living in older mobile homes.
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There is a tornado shelter in the garage of someone in our neighborhood. Haven't seen it.
Someone in our neighborhood had a tornado room built on the back of their home, it makes good storage too.

We were here for the tornado that went through TV. I was up all night preparing for the worst, the other half slept through it! He also slept through WW11 so ...................... We were also caught at sea in a Gale Force 9 - he slept through that too ................. I probably ought to start referring to him as Rip Van Winkle!
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This particular event in the picture, took place before those constant warnings. Local weather meteorologists were on TV, but the national warnings weren't in use here. In that storm, no one in The Villages was hurt. You head to an interior closet or hallway, or the guest bathroom if it doesn't have an exterior wall, cover yourself with something and hold on...
Also get in the bathtub and cover with a mattress if possible
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Someone in our neighborhood had a tornado room built on the back of their home, it makes good storage too.

We were here for the tornado that went through TV. I was up all night preparing for the worst, the other half slept through it! He also slept through WW11 so ...................... We were also caught at sea in a Gale Force 9 - he slept through that too ................. I probably ought to start referring to him as Rip Van Winkle!
Seems to work for him he survived all of that
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The difference I have noticed here vs. elsewhere is they start broadcasting a "Tornado Warning" once a subjective visual hook echo is seen on a radar. Maybe technology has advanced to the degree they can tell for certain that a tornado is ON the ground with a hook echo, but just a year ago that was not possible. It still took spotters to confirm an actual tornado. Don't get me wrong, it is always better to be safer than sorry and warn people, but sometimes the cry wolf theory holds true also. Until someone tells me there is one on the ground heading MY way, than I take cover. Most times I am outside watching too! Perhaps they need another alert that says "Possible tornado from hook echo"! lol
The other thing that is a nuisance is when they give a tornado warning for TV when the storm is already past heading east in another county. I know when I operated a large plant, we changed our take cover to storms HEADING toward us vs. those known to be by us although in the same county. They would say tornado warning for "xx" county until "y" time although it was miles to the east and no storms coming and all would take cover. Just some thoughts...
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The difference I have noticed here vs. elsewhere is they start broadcasting a "Tornado Warning" once a subjective visual hook echo is seen on a radar. Maybe technology has advanced to the degree they can tell for certain that a tornado is ON the ground with a hook echo, but just a year ago that was not possible. It still took spotters to confirm an actual tornado. Don't get me wrong, it is always better to be safer than sorry and warn people, but sometimes the cry wolf theory holds true also. Until someone tells me there is one on the ground heading MY way, than I take cover. Most times I am outside watching too! Perhaps they need another alert that says "Possible tornado from hook echo"! lol
The other thing that is a nuisance is when they give a tornado warning for TV when the storm is already past heading east in another county. I know when I operated a large plant, we changed our take cover to storms HEADING toward us vs. those known to be by us although in the same county. They would say tornado warning for "xx" county until "y" time although it was miles to the
east and no storms coming and all would take cover. Just some thoughts...
It is illuminating to hear your comments. Thank you for your post.
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while the news stations no doubt provide a service for some, I do not care for the theatrics and hook to get one glued to their station.

In my opinion they get caught up in making a story out of the computer graphics and have my suspicions about just how accurate the real weather data conversion to telecasting graphics really is. I feel they also interupt far too many times with not really have very much new or different than the last time they were on.

I find the weather radio and a couple of good weather sites on the computer/ipad/iphone to be much more accurate and efficient.

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