To be fair, some might be doing both. Lots of TV stations have mobile apps so you can keep up with storm info while you're in a shelter sans TV.
One of the cells is about five counties away from me right now. I'm hoping it "hits the river" and follows it away from us. This happens a lot, sometimes not in a good way if we're desperate for rain and can watch it follow the path of the Red River.
Between the ones this week in Oklahoma, along with ones last week in Cleburne, I'm pretty sure my father is going to want to put in some sort of storm shelter. He's already on a weather kick after spending $$$ for a weather station. Unfortunately, around here, the shelters end up being as scary as the storm in a couple of years.
Due to the nature of the soil here, it expands and contracts with moisture level as well as temperature. This doesn't mean a good future for things underground. You'd be unlikely to find a basement here for this reason.
There used to be a mostly underground storm cellar behind my house. Our storm cellar with concrete walls over six inches thick had a crack form halfway up one of the long walls, and slowly but surely, the earth itself pushed the bottom half in at about a 45 degree angle before we finally bulldozed it in. Granted, it was built in the 30s or 40s, but by the time we moved here in the 80s, it was leaking so badly it was nothing but a breeding ground for all manner of icky critters.
Most storm cellars here start to fail in a decade or so. Personally, I wish we could build a new home and have a safe room put in. Those are becoming a lot more common. Still expensive, but easier to get to in an emergency and you don't have to worry about being underground.
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Date: 2013-05-20 06:02 pm (UTC)One of the cells is about five counties away from me right now. I'm hoping it "hits the river" and follows it away from us. This happens a lot, sometimes not in a good way if we're desperate for rain and can watch it follow the path of the Red River.
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Date: 2013-05-20 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 09:42 pm (UTC)Between the ones this week in Oklahoma, along with ones last week in Cleburne, I'm pretty sure my father is going to want to put in some sort of storm shelter. He's already on a weather kick after spending $$$ for a weather station. Unfortunately, around here, the shelters end up being as scary as the storm in a couple of years.
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Date: 2013-05-21 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-21 09:05 pm (UTC)There used to be a mostly underground storm cellar behind my house. Our storm cellar with concrete walls over six inches thick had a crack form halfway up one of the long walls, and slowly but surely, the earth itself pushed the bottom half in at about a 45 degree angle before we finally bulldozed it in. Granted, it was built in the 30s or 40s, but by the time we moved here in the 80s, it was leaking so badly it was nothing but a breeding ground for all manner of icky critters.
Most storm cellars here start to fail in a decade or so. Personally, I wish we could build a new home and have a safe room put in. Those are becoming a lot more common. Still expensive, but easier to get to in an emergency and you don't have to worry about being underground.