Traveling in Tornado prone areas
Will be traveling to SD the last of May. We are traveling in a Ram 3500 Dually with a 5th wheel. My husband who is a firefighter/EMT will have a weather radio. He has been West several times with Wild...
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sdianel wrote:
We check the weather 10 days ahead and try to avoid storms if possible by taking an alternate route or staying put another day or two.
This is excessive and sorry, it's really bad advice.
For starters, those of us that LIVE HERE full time are't going anywhere based on the 10 day forecast- moving to a different city for a few days, or anything like that.
And, back to the odds- the whole family is Midwesterners. I've never been hit (in 53 years), the parents have never been hit, the inlaws have never been hit...and that's 53 years without your suggestion of avoiding Tornadoes by avoiding the area ~two or whatever days in advance.
Dittos to the post that said pay attention to the weather and listen to the radio.
...and, by the way- flash flooding and lightning??? Those kill just as many folks.
(and repeating the normal act of driving is tons more dangerous).
