Summer Storm Preperations... Where do You go?

It is storming really bad here right now... With heavy rains and thunderstorms and hail too. a couple of minutes ago during a big bout of loud thunderstorm activity. I had my housemate and the kid and half-kid hide out in the bathroom until it was over. Our bathrooms/shower room has no windows and it is very handy to have in storms like this one... Where in your house/apartment do You hide out in case of storms/tornados?

No tornados here, that I've ever experienced. I love thunder and lightning storms (from inside) I put on some Bach organ pieces and let it rip. Franz and Maddie don't seem to mind the storms either, or July 4th noises for that matter.

In the old house in KY it was the downstairs bathroom and closet under the steps - we needed both because that is what we needed for all the cages. Luckily the house we have here in OH has a half basement that is plenty big enough for all of us - plus a big closet that we store all the cages and carriers in - makes them handy in an emergency.

hmmm....I posted, but it vanished into cyberspace, methinks! I don't really mind thunderstorms....but since I live basically in a tin can, we watch the weather pretty close around here, and if the word tornado is mentioned for our part of the county, we grab the kits, stuff them into their carriers, load 'em up and head for our store. It's a metal building, but the inner offices are small and windowless. I think the other night when the tornado warning was toned out, I had the kits ready to go and the car cranked before hub got his pants and shoes on.....he'd been asleep while it was my shift to watch the weather since they were predicting storms. As a matter of fact, during our two tornado seasons, I don't even store the carriers, I just stack them either in the living room or spare bedroom....just in case!!

It helps to know what my TCS peeps do in an emergency like this one ... Makes me feel a lot better about where I live and stuff.

To the liquor store!
I usually just lay on the couch and ride them out. Hurricanes have already knocked over most of the trees around here. The last few times, we did not even lose power.
If it got realy bad, I would probably go into my bathroom, since it has no windows. We have been fortunate not to have tornadoes in our area, just hurricanes.
I am always prepared to evauate if necessary. I keep my carriers available, and my tank full during bad weather.

To the liquor store!

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We don't "hide" from our bad weather, we "RUUUUUUUUN" like hell from it. (Hurricanes) We don't really get horrible weather without a warning. So, when a hurricane is coming we try to get onto the west side of it. Too many people run north so you end of stuck on the interstate in the middle of the hurricane!

BTW, if you're ever stuck down here when a hurricane is approaching (even if it's 3 days away) it is a custom here to get to the store, (ASAP) and fill a buggy with water, one with batteries and one is spam!

We go to our inner hallway in our house. It has with stood two tornadoes. Hopefully it will continue to work. It's wierd though because those two storms were within 6 months.

On the whole we just don't get weather that ferocious. Even thunder and lightning are not frequent. The kids don't like that much, but it doesn't last long.

You and the Girls are soo lucky Fran

i'm in idaho, we don't have storms, we're lucky if it rains at all! but we've actually been lucky this past week it's rained all week, but not a lot really, at least not compared to the south, or washington! people have started to complain about the rain here, wishing it would stop and all, but i say keep it coming i love rain we usually have really bad drouts (sp?) in the summer, so the more rain the better, and i will never complain! well if my house washed away i might complain but thats highly unlikely here!

I grew up in south FL so running from the weather is a way of life! Then I moved to the adirondacks where we would have crazy snow storms: like 3 feet in one day. Now I live in the land of wind!

My poor parents had to evacuate their brand-new house three times this past summer. Sometimes they just head to the middle of the state, for the second storm they drove up to SC where my sister lives--and then got stuck there. So, for the third storm they said "screw it!" and had an "evacu-cation" as we called it--an evacuation vacation--they came up to chicago, stayed in a nice hotel and did fun touristy things with me and my husband for about a week!
If our town has bad storms but doesn't get evacuated, we would go to my dad's office which is a fortress-- when the third hurricane hit our town (vero beach) this summer the Weather Channel people were broadcasting from the carport in my dad's office since it's such a tank of a building. Gotta love the cinderblock!

the only thing we ever have to run from is fires

I've had to evacuate for Hurricanes, but never given a great deal of thoughts to tornados. We have a very large closet in the bedroom and would probably crouch down in there.

Hum... well in Scotland we don't tend to get tornadoes... although last year we had a really little one touch down at the back of my house before it disappeared again. that's about as close as we ever get. Where do I go? Outside

Everyone to the basement!

Cindy - if you don't have a NOAA Weather Alarm, I would recommend it, I would even go a bit further and say get a portable one. The are about the size of a walkie-talkie. I take mine on trips when we are driving out of town.

Cindy, I commiserate . I didn't used to be afraid of storms, and I'm still not really, but when we start getting that constant lightning with no rain and hail coming I'm like "Oh, geeez..." The track of the F5 that wiped out West Jefferson several years back went about a mile north of where we were living at the time...in a single-wide mobile home. We elected to stay in the mobile, as quite frankly the closest "shelter," my mom's house, wasn't as well built (old country house) and at least the MH was strapped down with steel strapping and anchors that went into solid rock. I know, I watched the installers cursing as they struggled with it .

Here we do have an interior, windowless hallway we retreat to, and this house despite its shortcomings actually has good "bones" and should withstand a small tornado. Of course, NOTHING is giong to withstand an F5.

I've threatened to move somewhere where there are no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no blizzards, and no fires or floods. Unfortunately I don't think such a place exists!

This is interesting: Tornado Activity in the US

That big red spot in the middle of Alabama? That's us !

We head for the basement, or at least most of us. Jerry is outside looking up at the sky............he loves storms. I do too, but if I see a funnel cloud, I"m outta there!