Basements, interior rooms, and especially beneath a staircase.
My dad has been a contractor his whole life, and grew up in tornado alley, and he always told my siblings and I that if a house has a sturdy staircase, it’s often your best bet for a safe shelter in a bad storm, because he’d often seen houses be demolished by storms, but their staircases would usually be intact.
They’re centrally-located, in most houses, and there’s usually a room or utility closet built beneath them. The lack of exterior walls and windows, paired with the sturdy construction staircases usually have, since they’re built to withstand a beating, makes such spaces a solid shelter.
Unfortunately, I live in the edge unit of a townhouse complex. My first-floor bathroom is ~6 feet away from the exterior wall of the building only protected by two light, wooden doors (bathroom door and closet across the hallway) and the exterior wall itself. Pretty sure I’m screwed regardless if I’m in that bathroom.
Don’t they make houses out of bricks in Tornadoland?
Or if you have one basements are great, rare as they may be I can’t believe they didn’t mention them.
Looking at that thumbnail and I’m *never* going to that glory hole. Jesus!
Chuck Testa really is a template.
Basements, interior rooms, and especially beneath a staircase.
My dad has been a contractor his whole life, and grew up in tornado alley, and he always told my siblings and I that if a house has a sturdy staircase, it’s often your best bet for a safe shelter in a bad storm, because he’d often seen houses be demolished by storms, but their staircases would usually be intact.
They’re centrally-located, in most houses, and there’s usually a room or utility closet built beneath them. The lack of exterior walls and windows, paired with the sturdy construction staircases usually have, since they’re built to withstand a beating, makes such spaces a solid shelter.
Unfortunately, I live in the edge unit of a townhouse complex. My first-floor bathroom is ~6 feet away from the exterior wall of the building only protected by two light, wooden doors (bathroom door and closet across the hallway) and the exterior wall itself. Pretty sure I’m screwed regardless if I’m in that bathroom.
Redditor visits notorious glory hole, claims it’s a tornado…
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Safest place during a tornado is the room in a part of the world that doesn’t have tornados.
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I have an open floor plan. It’s like one giant room. Basement it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4e2Zbx8nvY&t=329s
“they’re like toothpicks” ?
This was for more enjoyable than I thought it would be
Loved it. I’m probably never going to use that info since I don’t live in a tornado area but still
I’ve always been told go to the basement away from windows, put on a blanket to stop shattered glass from landing on you.
Anybody else wondering who has a house with a fully enclosed interior room that isn’t a pantry filled with glass jars?
Using toothpicks is an odd way to compare a 2×4 ramming through a concrete way
Is that CGI Mini OK?
and then the whole house crumbles because it’s build out of wood and you die anyway
the man has balls to stay in a storm and dodge objects which come in high speed crashing the house but lets also talk abt the camera man…
All that CGI and custom effects to just drop the ball at the end and make the dude in the doorway look as big as the house.
*During* a tornado the safest place is far away.
Im confused. How am i supposed to get a video if im in the room with no windows?
As a previous resident of Oklahoma. If I die. I die.
Rather do it comfy in bed than scared in the closet.
This log ain’t gonna suck itself…
Why do they waste money on these stupid animations