TORNADOES In the Ozark's...How WE Prepare!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2019
- Tornado season is starting up once again. Today we are showing you how we prepare for storms in our underground storm shelter.
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We designed our storm shelter to have the door to open inward. If you have something heavy land on your door you could get trapped. I also recommend using cat litter for the toilet.
A coupe of additional things you might want to add to your buckets/bunker: a loud whistle that you can blow to alert people on the outside if something should blow over your door. A lot easier to blow a whistle the yell or scream and it takes up little to no real room in a bucket. Grab some of those lap type blankets that Walmart sells that are fairly cheap. You can cram a bunch of those into a bucket and it saves on having to bring blankets with you if you have to move fast. Have a couple of pool noodles cut up into 1 to 2 foot lengths. These make great little pillows to lean your head against the walls or for use to lie down on the floor. Easy to store in a corner. Store some old towels in the shelter, enough for each person and a couple of extras. Good for drying yourselves off if you've had to run through rain to get into the shelter. Getting dry is important as your nerves are going to take over and it will cut down on shivering or getting your blankets wet when you want to wrap up in them to get warm.
What a great man! He really takes good care of his family!!
When my husband and I visited an underground bomb shelter in Germany a few years ago we were impressed that they painted all of the walls with a phosphorescent paint. They glowed and made it much safer to navigate in them.
Great advice. I’m finishing a bachelor's degree in Emergency and disaster management. I highly recommend you give the grid coordinates for your shelter to the local fire department. If a strong tornado comes through, no one will be able to tell where anything was before. Additionally, your shelter may be covered with debris. Thanks for sharing.
You have a good handle on what you need in case of an emergency. I would like to make a couple of suggestions. This comes from good friends who went through a tornado. They sheltered in their basement, in a bathtub in the bathroom. Their house was destroyed. Luckily the ceiling over them held. They only had bare feet and sandals on. But right next to the bathroom was winter storage. They were able to put winter boots on, grab jackets and leather gloves. This was important because their whole neighborhood was broken glass, wood splinters and insulation. So I would suggest putting some sort of boots, jackets and gloves in your shelter. Thanks!
For the toilet: instead of the wood shavings (or maybe in addition to) I would recommend having a dozen plastic trash bags to put inside the buckets with a bit of the top of the bag overlapping outside, then seal the lid on over the bag, securing it. You poop or tinkle into the bag in the bucket and the bag is easy to remove when full and you still have an empty clean bucket with another bag. They take up VERY little room and have so many other uses. Maybe have different sized bags for different needs. Also at least one wool blanket for each person.
I am in western Kentucky and after the tornadoes a couple weeks ago I can tell you beyond any shadow of a doubt that tornadoes are Equal Opportunity Destroyers. Since then I have seen many miles of destroyed homes and buildings and can say for a fact that being underground is really the only safe place. All the suggestions here have been good ones but the most important one I can think of is to make CERTAIN that someone comes looking for you afterwards. Buildings, cars, trees, you name it can be thrown literally miles from where they’re supposed to be and could easily block the only way out of a shelter. The suggestion of steel posts around the door is probably the best one I read here
We live in Pueryo Rico and last year we were hit by hurricane Maria a #4-5 winds of 200mph. Our house is concrete but we were out of electriciry for three months it was awfull. We have s gas stove and make dinner an lunch with it. But niw we are more prepared with a gas plant gor the fridge and at least two fans. We were very humble wirh this experience even we went to a river to clean our cloths and we cry a lot on those months, no cell phone no tv norhing to communicate but we were ok in comoarison to tbe 3k plus death. So be prepare always.
Don't forget medications. I went through 5 hurricanes before moving out of Florida and during the 'season' don't forget any essential medications too.
I forwarded this video to friends that live in TN. They told me that one of the things that everyone there that has a shelter has to do is to register with the city or state (?) so that they can be checked on after a disaster. If your state doesn't have such a thing, maybe you could suggest it. They might take the idea seriously after these terrible storms!
Great to see such video on Weather preparations. I have worked many many disasters especially tornadoes. If unable to get to the shelter or in RV , or mobile home and do not seek safer shelter, I recommend each family members have a fully enclosed motorcycle help. After over 200 medical injury intakes, the first to go is your eyesight from debris and sight compromised. Second is blunt force trauma to the head, the scalp perfusion is unreal and or knocked unconscious . Third facial and neck vessel laceration. You have higher protection to a degree with the motorcycle helmet. Interesting the motorcycle helmet protect from asphyxiation up nose and mouth debris being slammed into airway passages. Also victim accounted the air that was sucked out of the,. Small air pocket with helmets helps. A bike cycle helmet blows off. If I can save one life with this info or bring light to the detrimental effects of a tornado, I will preach. Thanks for the video. Capt. B
I was in an F3 tornado while in my mobile home, in Gadsden, Alabama in December of 2000. I had become complacent because it always blew over. Normally we went to a friends house if there was a warning, but that day I was alone because my husband took our boys Christmas shopping for me. I saw it coming about a quarter mile away. You could see lots of debris swirling around. We lived right on a river and no storm shelter. I was hit head on and will never forget the trailer being picked up and I was being thrown around and things kept slamming into my body. I was thrown about 100 feet and I knew immediately my arm was broken and I was cut and bruised all over. We lost everything. I hurt my back and ended up with a big back surgery. I just thank God my sons weren’t there. Long story short, be prepared and never stay in a mobile home. Not only was my home destroyed but it flattened and swept away brick homes. Take warnings seriously and be prepared!! 🌪
We used our FoodSaver and vacuum packed a towel and change of clothes for each of us to keep in our cellar. Nice to know that if it's raining when we head to the shelter or if one of us falls in a mud puddle, we have clean dry clothes available. Once vacuum packed, they take up very little room and will stay completely dry and bug-free.
I remember you saying your neighbors would check on you but just in case they don't, having a two way radio to call for help would be a nice back up.
I recommend a pair of hard sold shoes for each family member to put on after a tornado..nails and broken glass can travel miles before being thrown free of the tornado and you might not see them when you step around piles of debree...
I’m not keen on all the “you should” comments because you are a family with brains. You obviously took the weather situation seriously enough by making the shelter a priority when you just arrived there. I’m sure, since you have already used the shelter a number of times, you have acknowledged a need for something additional and amended your procedures.
Suggest you get a dry bag to put important papers in, birth certificates, passport, wallet, purse, will, medications etc. If tornado takes your house all the aforementioned may go with it.
I lived in the Dakotas most of my childhood. We always had a storm cellar/root cellar in the yard. Saved our lives twice.
I'm old and I'd love to have a shelter. I'd put a bed in mine so when a warning goes out I could sleep the night or day.