When a tornado hits, what happens for you?

never experienced one personally... have had em drop down nearby few and far between.. but never right near me or anything. i do know what to do in an emergency tornado situation tho.. if theres no basement for cover etc. first open all the windows in yer house.. its the pressure from the outside that will cause yer house to cave in.. allow the wind to pass through without creating the pressure build, and youll escape too too much damage.. and get into yer bathroom.. into the tub if you have one. its generally the most structurally sound solid part of any home, and ride it out. keep an emergency kit under yer bathroom sink.. first aid, flashlight, transistor radio, etc. better to be prepared than sorry

I am Brit ex-pat now living in Canada, Ontario. We don't generally get Tornado's here either, not like Tornado alley in the states, but you get the odd one or two. However, I should point out that, as I understand it, 95% of all houses are wooden construction over here and have light plastic polymer siding. As I understand it North America as a whole construct most of their houses in a similar way. There are some houses here that have brick/stone siding but often in these cases it is not structural and is merely there for aesthetics. Whilst you do not have a basement/cellar I imagine, like the rest of Britain, your house is a brick/stone/cement construction. This is much stronger than a wooden house over here, certainly more sturdy than the house I currently live in:). I think you would in general fair much better. If you look at some of the houses in Tornado alley the best protection are those that have a solid concrete room somewhere central to the house, these are specifically designed to withstand a bad tornado and sure enough you often see pics of folk emerging from those concrete cells unharmed to a wooden framed house that is simply demolished. My point is therefore that a brick house would fair better as you are, in essence, in such a bunker of protection. I refer you to the children's story of the three little pigs, which house faired best here ;).

Oh gosh, I hope to God you never have to experience a tornato! Hubby and I lived in Texas for 11 years and experienced so many of them that we're so happy to be out of that state! However, if you were to encounter one, this is what you do, go to the most center part of your place that is without windows. Preferably a closet or a bathroom and into the bath tub and put a mattress over top of you and your family to help keep the flying debri from hitting you and others and pray like you've never prayed before! I'm serious. It's loud and then the sound of your house being torn apart is completely unimaginable. However, if you're in an apartment or a two story house, it's best to get to the lowest part of the building and again away from windows so no one gets cut by the glass.

We don't routinely have tornadoes where I live, but we do have severe thunderstorms on a routine basis in the summertime. We did have a tornado in March. I had a large tree hit my house. It was very frightening, because I have no basement either and the power had gone out. It was about 11pm and the TV went out right before the news came on. I went into my walk in closet and stayed there until the severe winds were over. I had to have my roof and ceiling repaired.

I used to always go to my mom's house when there was talk of bad weather and high winds, she had a basement.. But my mom passed away about 15 months ago and now we jsut tough it out hear at home.. But last week, we had some very bad storms with high winds and thunder and lightening.. My mother had lived in the same house for 30 years and had always worried about one of the huge trees in her front yard falling into her house during one of these storms, well last week during the bad storm, it did.. It came in through the window where she always sat and watched TV, it destroyed the house and would have killed her had she still been living and in the house.. I was devastating to see the damage done to the place that she called home for so long.. Bad weather really scares me now..

About a week ago we had a rash of bad weather that kept us in our basement for about 2 hours. A tornado touched down less than a mile from our house and then continued on and devistated over half of a town near us. It is very scary. If you don't have a basement or cellar you should go to the innermost room in your home. Most times they will say a bathroom and get in the bathtub and put a mattress over it. As far as precautions we take we keep a few diapers and wipes down in our basement for our youngest son and a gallon of water as well. We keep an eye on the weather if storms are in the area and we always make sure we have shoes on. I know the last sounds silly but after seeing first hand the devistation I know that if my house was gone I would not want to be without shoes or want my children walking around without shoes. The debris is so major that you could really get hurt.

Hi Sweetie I agree with you there we are not prepared for anything like that at all I really do not know where I would go as most places do not have Cellars really When the Winds get up to High it is scary so I do hope that we will never go through anything like that Love and Hugsxx

We have hurricanes in our area every year. And heavy rains which leads to floods cause we live in the flood plain. So we are always facing this problem. Honestly, I am way behind this year's preparations. Thanks for the reminder!

i dont do anything as we cannot do. i'll try to be more safer and i am not afraid of such things