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Article #25Re: Tornado Safety Query
From: Rodney Blackall
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:00
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In article <6f2mhi$o23$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, <sharmakdeep@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > What kind of safety drill would one make if staying in an Apartment > Complex. The Apt. Complexes are shared by all and the only place > where one could go in a Tornado Warning is the Laundry Roon on the > lowest floor or maybe, the corridor on the lowest floor. Is that > considered safe enough in case of Tornado Warnings ? How strong are > the Apt. structures, if made by brick, in case of tornadoes ? > Thanks > Shekhoo > -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading You could do a great deal worse than read a 224 page book by the Verkaiks called 'Under the Whirlwind (Everything you need to know about tornadoes but didn't know who to ask)'. ISBN 0-9681537-0-4, pub 1997 by Whirlwind Books, Elmwood, Ontario, Canada. It is mainly about a Canadian tornado outbreak on April 20, 1996 BUT it is full of GENERAL useful advice and pictures; warnings dissemination, signs in the sky, what to do and where to shelter. Interestingly, it seems you are more likely to be injured by 'straight-line' winds than tornadoes. UK readers should be able to get their copies through the Royal Meteorological Society for about �15. Good luck in seeing and avoiding! -- Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist) London, ENGLAND
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10f497,b80a8c9f280b47a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f497,public X-Google-Thread: 11161a,b80a8c9f280b47a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid11161a,public X-Google-Thread: 108c6c,b80a8c9f280b47a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c6c,public X-Google-Thread: 112f4a,b80a8c9f280b47a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f4a,public From: Rodney Blackall <rblackall@rodsrisc.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Tornado Safety Query Date: 1998/03/23 Message-ID: <482b766c9crblackall@rblackall> X-Deja-AN: 337194777 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <6f2mhi$o23$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: rodsrisc.demon.co.uk [158.152.179.94] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Newsgroups: tmc.weather,uk.sci.weather,bit.listserv.wx-talk,sci.geo.meteorology