re: At least 23 dead in Mississippi tornadoes

Anchors wouldn't have helped here

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That can be mitigated somewhat by having them anchored. But you get a mile wide F5 and you're screwed even if you live in a stick built home with a basement.

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I’m not sure I’d want to be in anything but a below ground shelter for an F5.

You look at the pictures from Phil Campbell/Smithville MS/etc and they were scouring the ground.

Wood frame houses, metal building, brick houses… didn’t matter.

Phil Campbell had a confirmed case of a storm shelter losing its cement top.
F5 Damage eval

Bottom line, if I know for a fact an F4/F5 is coming and have more than five minutes of warning I’m getting in a car and driving away.

There’s a few places in this country I wouldn’t live in without a basement or a storm shelter. Central and northern Mississippi and Alabama are two of those places. The problem is those are expensive and most people in these rural towns can’t afford them.

Nocturnal long track tornadoes through Dixie Alley are a recipe for disaster.

We got a price quote for a 6 person storm shelter anchored to slab for $8000. Was getting ready to install when we had roof, water damage where we planned to install. Hoping to get it in place before next spring now.

That might be the worst I have seen....

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There’s a few places in this country I wouldn’t live in without a basement or a storm shelter. Central and northern Mississippi and Alabama are two of those places. The problem is those are expensive and most people in these rural towns can’t afford them.

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My grandparents have one buried in the ground behind their house.. it’s about 50 yards away from the Backdoor . Although they’re in their 80’s and don’t move well.. not sure they could even get to it if they wanted and also who knows if any critters are down in there

Can’t remember how much they paid for it, luckily my dad does heavy equipment work so he’s the one who installed it

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Rolling Fork in daylight LINK

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Another example of why I believe people should be taught to leave if they don’t have underground shelters in these extreme cases.

Watch that video and show me where someone walks away unscathed above ground in a home?

Those aren’t trailers, those are well built houses and not a single room is intact.

Saw it first hand with the Hackleburg storm where it tracked for 100 miles on a very similar path to this one (pull up a map of hackleburg and you’ll see Amory and Smithville down to the SW).

They had time to tell people to go. I get that they don’t want to cause panic and depending on where someone is they could just drive right into it, but not telling them what to expect doesn’t seem fair either.

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RogerTheShrubber

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When did you turn into such an a-hole? Use to think you were one of the cooler posters on here

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When do they leave? Every time there is a thunderstorm? You only get minutes notice of tornado. You think being in a car is safer?

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The 2011 storms were warned 10+ minutes out with videos and radar confirming speeds well into the F4/F5 range. Some of them crossed the entire state or parts of multiple states. These are long track, super cell nightmare storms that are pretty unique to Dixie Alley and N TX/OK for the most part.

Everyone in the thread last night could tell what that cell was and what it was gonna do to any town it touched.

I’m not saying it’s always applicable, possible or advisable to tell people to leave. But with those monsters where you can I’m saying if you don’t explain to people what the likely outcome is if you stay you haven’t given people what they need to make an informed decision.

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Here's video from Rolling Fork, MS.

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That's terrible. That makes the tornado that hit here back in January look small in comparison.