If you have ever been in a tornado and have lived to tell people about your story then you understand how horrible they can be if your not prepared. Tornadoes are like earthquakes. They are both common. If you ever experience a tornado and dont know how to survive it. Follow these 5 steps.
Step 1: Learn about them!
You can’t survive a tornado if you don't know what they are. You have to educate yourself about them. Go to the library get some books so something. A tornado is a powerful column of winds spiraling around a center of low atmospheric pressure. The wind is so powerful is can blow a mansion away or completely destroy it. They say tornadoes are nature’s most violent storms. So educate yourself before you come crossing down a tornado.
Step 2: Get prepared
If you live somewhere, where tornadoes are common then get prepared. For example I lived in Minnesota and there tornadoes are common. I’m not just going to sit there waiting for it to come. I’m going to prepare a tornado safety kit. In this kit you can include items such as bottled waters, blankets, clothes, food, batteries, and a radio. You never know when a tornado can come so you better prepare before hand. You should keep your safety kit in a tornado safety room or just the safest room.
Just understand how horrible they can be if your not prepared.
Step 3: Know the warning signs
Step 1: Learn about them!
You can’t survive a tornado if you don't know what they are. You have to educate yourself about them. Go to the library get some books so something. A tornado is a powerful column of winds spiraling around a center of low atmospheric pressure. The wind is so powerful is can blow a mansion away or completely destroy it. They say tornadoes are nature’s most violent storms. So educate yourself before you come crossing down a tornado.
Step 2: Get prepared
If you live somewhere, where tornadoes are common then get prepared. For example I lived in Minnesota and there tornadoes are common. I’m not just going to sit there waiting for it to come. I’m going to prepare a tornado safety kit. In this kit you can include items such as bottled waters, blankets, clothes, food, batteries, and a radio. You never know when a tornado can come so you better prepare before hand. You should keep your safety kit in a tornado safety room or just the safest room.
Just understand how horrible they can be if your not prepared.
Step 3: Know the warning signs
People that live where tornadoes usually hit don’t really have time to prepare. They never know when it will come. Even though this happens most people have a emergency tornado supplies. People who have these usually leave them in a safe room where the tornado can’t get them. If you want to survive you have to know the waning signs. The people that don’t have kits just wait until they see warnings that a tornado will occur. Some signs are weather changes. You have to pay attention to see if any sudden weather changes occur. For example if it’s like 45 degrees then its 101 degrees. That’s weird! If a tornado has happened close to where you live there’s a chance that it will hit where you live next. SO watch these signs.
Step 4 : Seek shelter
If a tornado occurs when you’re outside the first thing you need to do is seek shelter. You will die if you’re outside. If your inside in a safe place there is a chance you will survive. In most places where tornados occur there is usually a room down stairs where the tornado doesn’t hit. If there is one of those in your house that’s the safest place. If you don’t have one go to a restroom, closet or any other room that is windowless and has very little furniture in it. If you are driving when a tornado hits pull over and lay down where there is a whole or a ditch.
Step 5: hold on tight
If a tornado is really strong hole on to something that most likely wont break or come flying out. Hold on to it very tight. Do not release until the wind is calm and you feel is not going to come back that same day. When the tornado has struck don’t try and save some of your personal items. That can distract you to release what you’re holding on to and come flying with the tornado. Its either you save yourself or your items.
If you live in an area where these storms are common follow these steps above. Some people say you can still die but by following the above guide, you can at least try and stay one step ahead of the storm.
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