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« Reply #30 on: May 10, 2007, 08:36:58 PM »
The world has gone wacky hasn't it? Poor Kansas. I know it was leveled. My Uncle was affected by Hurricane Rita last year. Even when I went to Los Angeles last Dec it was unusually cold there. I don't know if  a storm shelter would even matter under those conditions. Didn't it happen at night? There wouldn't be much warning if any. I'd be afraid of being caught in a shelter and locked in by debris.
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« Reply #31 on: May 10, 2007, 09:29:34 PM »
I feel the same way about being in a shelter.  As I mentioned, where we live the water table is very high and hardly anyone has a basement.  Two churches in town are the exceptions, but even then the basements are only half under ground, and who wants to be buried under a church (noble Englishpersons excepted, of course)?  I don't want to be buried under my house, either, and I don't want to be trapped in a basement under a house that might have a broken gas line. 

We are actually discussing digging a hole in our back yard or under our back porch, where there are no electrical wires, no gas lines, and we would be upwind of the house, then burying a large plastic container, like the kind they use to water livestock, and putting a few emergency supplies in it.  When I was a child, some people use to have bomb shelters made of fiberglass.  I actually remember seeing one at the home show.  It was a very wierd thing for a young child to see.  Of course, only rich people could afford them and even then, who wants to be one of two survivors of a nuclear war?  Not I.  Of course, surviving a tornado would be very different from that.   

Our town has installed a tornado siren.  Even if the electricity is out, the siren blows and can be heard for miles.  Of course, our town is only about a mile big, so it is quite adequate for us.  It looks as though Greensburg, Kansas, was not so fortunate as to have a tornado siren. 
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« Reply #32 on: May 10, 2007, 11:45:20 PM »
Wow. Just..wow. I can't believe this isn't bigger news in the US.  Or I've been living under a rock! 
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« Reply #33 on: May 11, 2007, 12:23:49 AM »
Quote from: sedders on May 10, 2007, 11:45:20 PM
Wow. Just..wow. I can't believe this isn't bigger news in the US.  Or I've been living under a rock!  

It's Huge here in Maryland! IT's all they talk about on the news.
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« Reply #34 on: May 11, 2007, 01:33:24 AM »
Quote from: saucywitch on May 11, 2007, 12:23:49 AM
Quote from: sedders on May 10, 2007, 11:45:20 PM
Wow. Just..wow. I can't believe this isn't bigger news in the US.  Or I've been living under a rock!  

It's Huge here in Maryland! IT's all they talk about on the news.

Ah-ha! I must crawl out from under my rock more often!   
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