Total BS
We're watching the Discovery Channel's Super Tornado show and it is total complete crap.
They're focusing on Dallas and they are so full of crap. They show the Ballpark at Arlington and call it Dallas Stadium. Come on folks, just focus on Arlington and call it the Ballpark or feature the American Airlines Center. Then, they have this little anecdotal situation of a stupid blonde bitch and her kid running out of gas under Central Expressway near Deep Ellum. Instead of getting out of her car and heading for a building, she calls her husband. STUPID BITCH!!!! You're in charge of a child. Get his ass out of the weather and take shelter. Under an overpass is the MOST dangerous place you can be in a tornado.
Good God.
My favorite part is that almost every downtown Dallas skyscraper has an underground parking garage. Hello? McFly? Anyone home? Get inside and take shelter. Geesus.
Gets better. The stupid bitch in the show is married to an emergency management official. Dumbass gets in his SUV and drives to pick up his stupid bitch and her offspring (who will likely grow up to be stupid to, if he is lucky enough to survive). No safety guy would get in a vehicle with a tornado coming. He would tell his stupid bitch wife to go take shelter in a nearby building. I mean, please. Everything you aren't supposed to do is what they did in this show. My head is about to explode.
Maybe I know more than the average person from my reporter days and stormchasing, but come on. If you live in Tornado Alley, as I do, you should know these things.
Ok, if you're new to Texas, let me give you a few tornado safety tips of what to do during a tornado:
If outdoors:
If possible, get inside a building.
If shelter is not available or there is no time to get indoors, lie in a ditch or low-lying area or crouch near a strong building.
Be aware of the potential for flooding.
Use arms to protect head and neck.
If in a car:
Never try to out-drive a tornado in a car or truck.
Get out of the car immediately and take shelter in a nearby building.
If there is no time to get indoors, get out of the car and lie in a ditch or low-lying area away from the vehicle. Be aware of the potential for flooding.
If at home:
If you have a tornado safe room or engineered shelter go there immediately.
Go at once to a windowless, interior room; storm cellar; basement; or lowest level of the building.
If there is no basement, go to an inner hallway or a smaller inner room without windows, such as a bathroom or closet.
Get away from the windows.
Get under a piece of sturdy furniture such as a workbench or heavy table or desk and hold on to it.
Use arms to protect head and neck.
If in a mobile home, get out and find shelter elsewhere.
If at work or school:
Go to the area designated in your tornado plan.
Avoid places with wide-span roofs such as auditoriums, cafeterias, large hallways, or shopping malls.
Get under a piece of sturdy furniture such as a workbench or heavy table or desk and hold on to it.
Use arms to protect head and neck.
Ok, folks, be safe.
They're focusing on Dallas and they are so full of crap. They show the Ballpark at Arlington and call it Dallas Stadium. Come on folks, just focus on Arlington and call it the Ballpark or feature the American Airlines Center. Then, they have this little anecdotal situation of a stupid blonde bitch and her kid running out of gas under Central Expressway near Deep Ellum. Instead of getting out of her car and heading for a building, she calls her husband. STUPID BITCH!!!! You're in charge of a child. Get his ass out of the weather and take shelter. Under an overpass is the MOST dangerous place you can be in a tornado.
Good God.
My favorite part is that almost every downtown Dallas skyscraper has an underground parking garage. Hello? McFly? Anyone home? Get inside and take shelter. Geesus.
Gets better. The stupid bitch in the show is married to an emergency management official. Dumbass gets in his SUV and drives to pick up his stupid bitch and her offspring (who will likely grow up to be stupid to, if he is lucky enough to survive). No safety guy would get in a vehicle with a tornado coming. He would tell his stupid bitch wife to go take shelter in a nearby building. I mean, please. Everything you aren't supposed to do is what they did in this show. My head is about to explode.
Maybe I know more than the average person from my reporter days and stormchasing, but come on. If you live in Tornado Alley, as I do, you should know these things.
Ok, if you're new to Texas, let me give you a few tornado safety tips of what to do during a tornado:
If outdoors:
If possible, get inside a building.
If shelter is not available or there is no time to get indoors, lie in a ditch or low-lying area or crouch near a strong building.
Be aware of the potential for flooding.
Use arms to protect head and neck.
If in a car:
Never try to out-drive a tornado in a car or truck.
Get out of the car immediately and take shelter in a nearby building.
If there is no time to get indoors, get out of the car and lie in a ditch or low-lying area away from the vehicle. Be aware of the potential for flooding.
If at home:
If you have a tornado safe room or engineered shelter go there immediately.
Go at once to a windowless, interior room; storm cellar; basement; or lowest level of the building.
If there is no basement, go to an inner hallway or a smaller inner room without windows, such as a bathroom or closet.
Get away from the windows.
Get under a piece of sturdy furniture such as a workbench or heavy table or desk and hold on to it.
Use arms to protect head and neck.
If in a mobile home, get out and find shelter elsewhere.
If at work or school:
Go to the area designated in your tornado plan.
Avoid places with wide-span roofs such as auditoriums, cafeterias, large hallways, or shopping malls.
Get under a piece of sturdy furniture such as a workbench or heavy table or desk and hold on to it.
Use arms to protect head and neck.
Ok, folks, be safe.
2 Comments:
At 11:27 AM, March 20, 2006,
MrsDoF said…
Over the years, I have learned to ignore the tornado movies. As you say, they are often far off-the-mark should any real need arise.
We have friends at church who are still re-building after a tornado took 6 houses and a factory along their road.
This county knows what to do at this time of year.
ps I did like your Patricks post, but the dang Comment would not let me in, even when I typed my Blogger password twice and the word veri three times.
At 12:28 PM, March 20, 2006,
Uzz said…
I miss chasing tornadoes:-(
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