what should you do if u r in a mobile home during a tornado?
813609
Get out of the mobile home and go to a sturdy building if there is one nearby. If no buildings available, take a blanket or pillow to protect your head and lie face down in a ditch or depression in the ground. If you live in a tornado prone area there are usually tornado shelters available. Find out if there are any in your area and make arrangements in advance for the use of it during storms.
1100204
storm chasers arnt employed.\n\nyou can be your own storm chaser though.\n\nweld some sheet metal and go chase the tornados. ftw!!1!
236504
when I was visiting my gramma a tornado ripped her house in half, for real, luckily we were in the basemant
954185
Leave the window open . . .and pray for a strong wind.
479771
It's all fun and games until your mobile home rolls over.
79607
First, I would turn off the faucet so I won't waste water. Second, I would look out the window to see who's knocking on the door then let the person in if it's someone I know. I would leave the laundry outside because it's going to dry after it stops raining. Last, I would wait for the answering machine to pick up the message and then I would call the person back if I know that person.
700988
I have been through a Tornado. We moved down into the basement. Do they have anything underground in your building? Storage or parking? I would go down as low and you can in the building and stay in a doorway.\n\nIt has been several hours since you posted, I am wondering if everything is ok now.
608754
I love to watch them on tv. I love a thunderstorm near my house. Never been in a tornado or hurricane but they look really scary on tv. I think I would be very scared if I had to go thru a tornado of hurricane. We had a tropical storm one time with winds up to 70 mph. It was awful and lasted all night. I was so worried about the trees crashing on my house. They didn't but the ones in the far back fell. The house shook.
272174
Though tornadoes can come from any direction, most often it is from the W-SW. Thus especially if the bathtub is on the SW side of the house, that wall would most likely take a direct hit. Really helps if you know which direction the tornado may come from in the particular situation - which is not entirely out of the question looking at radar maps and severe weather reports prior to it. Yet many tornaodes come with almost no warning - people briefly hear the sound, and then it hits.\n\nThe shower is in which is typically a better place (tornado takes out most of the W-S side of the house), but is surrounded by glass. Bathrooms tend to be among the less dangerous of spots, but for this case neither is probably good. I am not sure if the mattress thing will be good either. It can protect you from falling debris or possibly even trees, but unless that matress fits right inside the tub with you (i.e., does not hang out), the tornado winds could easily take it up and you with it if you continue to hold on. If there is a closet on the N-E side of the house, it may be the best - wrap stuff around you and especially your head.\n\nIf you see the tornado coming far enough ahead and there is a sewer cover that comes off, it is not out of the question to climb in and go down - so long as there is no threat it'll completely flood.\n\nTornadoes are funny.  They can leave glasses standing on a cupboard while the entire house around it is leveled.
577383
Having been in the path of a direct hit by Hurricane Claudette on July 15, 2003, I have to say that I'm not so sure about hanging around for something like that again.  The house I live in made it through Hurricane Carla in 1961 packing winds (COMING ASHORE) of 165 mph.  I now figure if it's barely a hurricane of say 74-80 mph, a category one, I will probably stay.  That doesn't mean I won't be scared as hell, but something of that size going North or South of here isn't going to cause me to leave.  We were blindsided by Hurricane Claudette sneaking up the coast overnight and caught EVERYBODY "with their pants down" so to say.  That was probably the scariest thing I've ever been witness to in my 43 years on this planet.  The wind was screaming past my front door right at 100 mph.  Had I known that was on the way we would have got the hell out of here.  One tornado took out huge trees right next door, while I only had to replace about five shingles.  That tornado went right over the house while I was putting all 240 pounds of me on the front door trying to close it.  The whistling was like screaming banshees.  The wind was howling.  I mean literally howling.  It still scares me to think about it. For most of my life I wondered what it would be like to ride out a hurricane.  Now I know.  Will I leave or ride it out?  Chances are pretty good I'm outta here.  Many "old-timers" and idiots thought they could ride out another hurricane.  Many of those "old-timers" and idiots didn't make through to tell us all about it.  Don't be an idiot.  Listen to your common sense and watch the advisories.  If this message helps to save your life or someone else's, then I haven't typed this in vain.  Good luck.
403623
One of my favorites was making a tornado in a 2 L soda bottle.\n\nWhat you do is take a bottle and pour it almost full of water. Get some grass and some small toys, like cars to put in there. I like to use the monopoly houses to. Then put a small drop of soap in then swirl the top a the bottle around really fast. There ya go a tornado. Then give a one or two paragraph summery on how a tornado is formed.
254379
There are probably a few explanations, However a whirlwind probably not a tornado possibly. could you add some detail where are you located?\n\nI beleive there was some tornado activity in your area today.
51152
Natural disaster...tornado, earthquake, etc.
515568
Yep it all depends on if the  warm air current is rising up to meet a cold one that is coming down and they clash enough to make a vortex. Tornado's can happen pretty much anywhere.
995192
Well it depends on whether the sirens are used for an emergency or not. Are they just being tested? If so, ignore them. Or are they there for a specific reason (ie tornadoes or manmade disasters like nuclear accidents). Turn on a local radio station and listen for instructions. Also, if you have cable TV then turn on a local channel (or a channel that offers local news programming) and see if there is an Emergency Broadcast Warning with instructions on what you should be doing. If none of these medium are available, I think you best bet is to round up any kids you have and be vigilant. I mean, common sense says if a massive thunderstorm is rolling in, get in the house, right? \n\nIt's always a good idea to keep an emergency preparedness kit handy. Non perishable foods, water, toiletries, flashlights, batteries, a radio, and enough cash for about three days. Some people really take it to the extreme but I keep two cases of water and some canned goods in the basement pantry. \n\nWhat it boils down to is don't panic. Panic is catchy and can heighten tensions to a boiling point in any situation. Keep your cool, be prepared, and have a few board games handy in case the power goes out.
386250
I live right in tornado alley and some things that we get are flash light, a radio the runs off batteries, blankets, if you don't know how long you are go to have to take cover get some food like that you doesn't need to be refridgerated, you also hhave to have a first aide kit. If yo don't have a basement or storm shelter you may need a matterss, so you can cover yourself with while in a bathtub or a closet.
916746
I've been in a tornado. It is quite an experience alright. This tornado wasn't too wide, maybe 100 yards - and moving across the ground at about 30 mph. It came right at our house and lifted just slightly as it passed overhead. The houses in front of my house were gone, the houses behind my house had their roofs ripped off. My brother was watching the rain hit the picture window, and when it was on top of us, the window was just white from the water - you could see nothing. I was on the front porch when it hit. Just like that the  picture window came crashing thru the house giving my brother 2 huge black eyes. The pressure of the air was pushing the porch door so hard, I couldn't open it. My mom was inside trying to pull the door open - I was pushing. We could only see each other through the glass window in the door. I was hanging on the doorknob for dear life :-) I felt myself get very light and my feet almost came off the porch when the glass in the door broke. Me and my mom grabbed each other through the broken window. I was already blinded by debris and I think that's why I wasn't blinded by the glass. I already had my eyes closed. I was shattered with flying glass - My face and arms had cuts all over. When the door window broke, it 'released' the pressure holding it closed and we were able to open the door. My mom was trying to get my brother and sister down into the basement. The room had about 2 feet of water in it. Everything was floating. The tornado was right overhead. The whole house was shaking. It was a really loud sound. We were just able to get into the basement and stuff came flying into the house. Rocks, wood, etc. It lasted about 3 minutes - and then we came out of the basement just in time to see the houses behind us getting clobbered. I was on the front porch watching it come at us, but was just facinated at the destruction it was causing before it hit. I can laugh now - but no one was laughing when it hit. :-) I'll never forget the look on my brother and sister face when that picture window crashed down on them - I'll never forget the panic look in my mom's face.\nYa wanna hear something ironic? About 8 years later I was drafted into the Viet Nam War, so I enlisted in the Air Force before the Army could get me. I ended up being a weatherman and was assigned to chasing tornados to launch weatherballoons into them along 'Tornado Alley' (nickname for route 66 from Chicago to Oklahoma where the most tornados occur). Funny thing, being a tornado chaser wasn't even close to being in one - not even close.  :-)