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ChooChooMan74's avatar
May 21, 2014

Campground Shelters

After seeing This video from The Weather Channel, I am curious at how many campgrounds in "Tornado Alley" have shelters in place. In my opinion, every campground where tornadoes frequent should have a shelter or shelters in place.
  • ChooChooMan74 wrote:
    sounds like back woods mentality. It is a few dollars more because they have a safe place in case of a storm, but we won't stay there because of the few extra dollars.
    Well, that's how people usually are...cheap.

    If the weather forecast is great for the next week, would you pay more for a shelter?
  • 2oldman wrote:
    If they did the rent would go up and nobody would stay there.
    Sounds like back woods mentality. It is a few dollars more because they have a safe place in case of a storm, but we won't stay there because of the few extra dollars.
  • If they did the rent would go up and nobody would stay there.
  • Some do........some don't

    Some have warning horns and directions to local shelter

    Some use shower/bathhouse as shelter

    One place in MS just advised us to 'lay face down in a shallow ditch, cover our heads and hope for the best'. Sorta bend over and kiss method :B