Tornado Warnings/Sirens

[clevername]

I'm around. My mom was fine, dad was out of town. There was a fair amount of damage in the city where they live but it missed their house.

Had 2 in a row that were coming right for me, but both got worse after they passed us. Never lost power but did lose internet until sometime today. My side of the city didn't really get affected that much, don't think our local ER had any weather related stuff and we didn't see any today.

[planet planet]

Thanks for checking in, clever. Great to hear that you and your family were unaffected. How is the city handling things?

[clevername]

I didn't bother venturing into Birmingham today. I live in a suburb that's about a 30-45 minute drive from where the tornado went through and my office is even further away, so I was spared any of the upheaval.

[lukethedrifter]

I live in a suburb that's about a 30-45 minute drive from where the tornado went through.

In the spirit of the OP:
Did warning sirens go off?

[clevername]

not for that one. They were going off all night, though, because the main stream of tornadoes were all coming through a path from our southwest through us. We'd get the siren/warning when they were still a ways off and could conceivably hit us, but luckily the big one didn't. The other two went right over us according to the radar but weren't on the ground when they came through and we didn't really get much of anything except rain.

[cardsfansince82]

We'd get the siren/warning when they were still a ways off and could conceivably hit us, but luckily the big one didn't. The other two went right over us according to the radar but weren't on the ground when they came through and we didn't really get much of anything except rain.

I would be livid.

[ghostrunner]

Here in Indy we don't stand for that not sounding the siren [expletive]:

http://www.theindychannel.com/weather/2 ... etail.html

[Spider John]

(CNN) -- We knew the threat was real when little pieces of Tuscaloosa began to drop on Birmingham. For such a violent storm, there was very little rain. Instead, paper receipts from businesses 50 miles away and strangers' family photos flitted through the air.

Roofing shingles, wood paneling and strips of insulation littered yards, sidewalks and streets. All of this, and the tornado itself was still 10 minutes away.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/29/w ... tml?hpt=T1

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ohIVzIZ ... dded#at=12][/youtube]

They say don't get in your car and try to outrun a tornado. But, in a case like this, I've always wondered about it. Unless you have a basement, it seems even your bathroom/anywhere in your house wouldn't be safe from this thing.

Also, this is a bad ass up close video of the tornado.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

We'd get the siren/warning when they were still a ways off and could conceivably hit us, but luckily the big one didn't. The other two went right over us according to the radar but weren't on the ground when they came through and we didn't really get much of anything except rain.

I would be livid.

Why?