WATCH: Two Massive Tornados Touch Down In Southern Mississippi
Southern Mississippi was ravaged with dual tornado storms on April 12, 2020.
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Stay safe out there, Mississippi-Era. Seems like 2020's bad luck is going into overdrive.
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Two Massive Tornados Touch Down In Southern Mississippi
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Stay safe out there, Mississippi-Era. Seems like 2020's bad luck is going into overdrive.
I love on Ontario and fear tornados when they are extremely seldom here.
I couldn't imagine living in these places where a dual tornado seems normal.
Scary stuff
I couldn't imagine living in these places where a dual tornado seems normal.
Scary stuff
At least we have had multiple days of warning to prepare for the storms. It really is amazing how well they were able to predict them days ahead of time. My family had prepped an emergency shelter room in our basement as the storms as supposed to hit our area around midnight.
it is important to remember that giant trees standing alone are always going to be at risk of falling in heavy winds and rain. In nature they would normally have other trees to help shield parts of the winds.
Picture of tornado from Yazoo City - not the EF 4 or 5 that is on the ground in south MS
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14 killed, several injured in deadly Easter Sunday storms
One vacant structure damaged received damage, several trees have fallen and power lines are down.
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I'm pretty concerned about hurricanes since the way we deal with those are like...the opposite of sheltering in place. Really gotta hope a major hurricane and a coronavirus spike don't overlap.
Yeah I know what you mean. One touched down in our county last night. I knew it wasn't close to our city or anything, but you just can't help thinking about what it'll be like for the rest of the season.
My house has no basement, we just have a center bathroom under some stairs that's big enough for like two people. An F4 or 5 hits out neighborhood? We are gone. That's it.
Do you live in Texas? Mw wife's brother lives in Dallas and I have an uncle in Houston and I always tell them to just build an underrground storm shelter in case a tornado ever comes. But they never take it seriously.
Have you ever considered the same? Honestly the government should subsidize that shit if its too expensive to get done privately.
I wish the government would. We'd have to blast to even do it. Dig down more than an inch or two and the ground is solid rock.
In the northeast almost all houses have basements. But that definitely does not seem the norm for the rest of the country.
But tornados are relatively rare in the NE. It should be mandatory for places that are hit often.
Mississippi and Alabama guys, stay safe. The night's not over yet.
This is the worst I've seen in Alabama so far. That was one persistent supercell, it came in from Mississippi and kept popping off tornadoes all the way into Georgia.
This is the worst I've seen in Alabama so far. That was one persistent supercell, it came in from Mississippi and kept popping off tornadoes all the way into Georgia.
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tornados in Houston are more rare, though every once and a while there are some bad storms. It's just not really amajor concern whereas hurricanes and flooding are always on the mind
Underground shelters aren't an option here in Houston. Floods too much. I think there's one house in the city that has a basement, and that was a pretty expensive undertaking for the owner. Up near Dallas would be much easier. My dad lives about an hour south and he has one.
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Looks like a power washer on the world. I cant imagine how animals survive this.
I moved from MS to Boston last year, and I noticed most places had basements.
The thing is, a lot of the South is flood country. In my hometown, maybe a tenth of homes could have a basement that wouldn't flood in a heavy rain. Usually you have underground shelters for the community in a place that doesn't flood easily, but you gotta get to them. And if they're not super maintained, they can be snake pits.
Growing up, we had an interior closet that we'd hide in and drag a mattress over our heads. Shit sucked, and I don't miss it.
My mom and my grandma are in southern Tennessee and the storm is pretty bad. Apparently the first wave has passed now but the wind is going to pick up soon. Their basement is flooding a bit too. Really hoping it doesn't get worse for them.
Carbon Hill, AL got hit. Tornado literally dropped on top of them, the warning didn't get out until it was past there.
My brother and his family live there, luckily they're OK.
My brother and his family live there, luckily they're OK.
Thats crazy.
What is the plan then if you are building a home in these areas that can't have underground shelters but are tornado prone?
There has to be a better solution than hiding in a closet or bathroom with a mattress. Growing up in the NE I always heard about people in mobile homes doing that (before they made it mandatory that they had to have a shelter) so I would have thought they had something better down south and in tornado alley.
My family always did the mattress thing. It was the best we could do. Most older houses didn't have anywhere good to hide other than as close to the center of the house as you could get.
When my college got hit and it destroyed the dorms they took the opportunity to build the new ones with bathrooms that doubled as reinforced tornado shelters. They built them to hurricane specs, not perfect for a tornado, but a heck of a lot better than just hiding in the bathrooms like we were told to do in the old ones.
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My grandpa installed an underground shelter, but due to the high water table it was only kind of underground. They built a dirt mound around the top half. That's probably the best solution. However they found they often couldn't use it, because the storm would come in so fast they didn't want to risk running out into the yard to get to it.
Fucking America.
Most developments don't even have side walks or street lights. And now I find out that so many poor bastards don't have some kind of shelter close by, which sounds like it should be mandatory.
Instead we have prayers and mattresses to save us from these nightmares.
Honestly I don't know what the best solution would be. Community shelters could be good, but in a storm they'd be risky to get to. Maybe the solution is to mandate that new construction have a shelter room of some sort. That wouldn't help people in older houses though, and a lot of these rural towns have very little new construction. Sadly a lot of times a shelter wouldn't even help. It's not uncommon for these things to hit during the night while people are asleep. If you don't get woken up by the sirens then you're out of luck. Phones having weather alert alarms has helped a ton with that though.
Personally, my solution was to move out of the area. People here in Kansas City think they get a lot of tornadoes, but they don't get anywhere near as many as I used to deal with in the South. I still worry about my family a lot though.
I was around for a smaller tornado once in college. And that was a nothing tornado that you would probably be safe from just inside most houses. But it was still scary AF. I can't imagine and don't want to ever see some mega EF4 or 5.
I don't fuck around with them anymore. I can totally understand moving away.
I looked into it a little just now as a Dallas area homeowner on why basements aren't common in that area. Apparently it's due to the type of soil present and it significantly contracts and expands when's its wet and dry. Which creates forces that requires significant engineering to address.
Whereas in the north, they dig up to get below the freeze line and since they're already down there, it makes more sense for them to add a basement at a much cheaper rate.
Where in North Texas, it would likely significantly increase home construction costs. More people are apparently asking for them though. Thing is there are so many existing homes that will never have them.
Potentially. These tornadoes contained strength that's been estimated to potentially be in the EF4-EF5 category. The rating itself though all depends on what damage is caused. They usually don't maintain those winds nonstop, and the most powerful components of these huge wedge tornadoes are the sub-vortices (aka mini tornadoes within the bigger tornado). That's why you'll have parts of the damage path with more destruction than other areas close by.
There's actually been quite a few tornadoes over the years that produced winds that violent but were mainly limited to primarily unpopulated areas as well, so their final rating ends up being lower than what the actual winds produced. An example being the El Reno tornado from 2013 which was rated EF3, but produced 300+ mph winds.
So we'll have to see what the damage comes to. However, what we know is that there were two violent tornadoes, in succession and occurring as the same time, that followed close to the same path.
Sorry if I seem like I'm lecturing lol, I've just always been interested in weather and like talking about it.
My mom and my grandma are right along the path of this madness for the rest of the night.
Just saw that a tornado might have ripped through the Chattanooga area. You and your family OK?
Yeah, I don't live out there with them but I've been on and off the phone with my mom all night. Their basement flooded with about an inch of water but they're okay. Seems the worst of it has past in their specific area, knock on wood. The storm has been drifting juuuuust east of where they are at and they're clear on the radar right now.
I hear you man. Last year watching Double or Nothing one was nearby and I found out my siren is not close enough for me to hear when there's wind.
Absolutely massive debris ball showing up on radar for this one in Georgia. The fact that it's hitting at this time of night makes it that much worse.
EDIT: Shit, there's one heading pretty much straight for downtown Atlanta now too. EDIT 2: Just south of Atlanta, actually.
EDIT: Shit, there's one heading pretty much straight for downtown Atlanta now too. EDIT 2: Just south of Atlanta, actually.
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