Anonymous-0
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watching a tornado doc. about the Moore OK. tornado last year. I asked myself why there is no tornado shelters in the schools that were hit.
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Take it a step further: Have you ever seen a tornado shelter in any school? I haven't, and I live on the South Plains of Texas, considered the beginning of the so called "tornado alley". It's mainly about money vs occupation at the time of most tornadoes, even though I doubt the latter has been discussed much. As a child we had our drills, both tornado and bomb (bet you can tell how old I am from that remark...) where we either got under the desks or out in the halls and assumed the positions.
Kent Petersen
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water table is so high in the Moore area. so no basements or storm shelters in ground
showcrop
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When the schools were built they built them large enough for the population projections for the next ten years not for the next fifty years because they could build only what the taxpayers would fund. It is the same for tornado shelters. If they had had a crystal ball maybe they would have built them, but they didn't so they planned using their best information at the time. Tornadoes are 20 times more common now than 25 years ago.
DaninKansas
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20 times more common? Where did you dream that up?
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information/extreme-events/us-tornado-climatology/trends
Actually the issue is the rising population. 40 years ago a tornado touched down in an open field and no one noticed. Today the same field has subdivision in it and the story makes national headlines.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information/extreme-events/us-tornado-climatology/trends
Actually the issue is the rising population. 40 years ago a tornado touched down in an open field and no one noticed. Today the same field has subdivision in it and the story makes national headlines.
DaninKansas
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Depends on what you consider a "storm shelter".
Our schools are built with hardened interior areas. You can't tell it from any other part of the school but the walls & ceilings are concrete instead of 2X4s and tiles. The doors leading in are steel in reenforced frames. Unless you know what you are looking at or saw the building going up you don't realize a couple hallways are different than the other hallways. The design spec is something like building population + 25% or something. The teachers need to learn which are shelter areas and which are not.
Our schools are built with hardened interior areas. You can't tell it from any other part of the school but the walls & ceilings are concrete instead of 2X4s and tiles. The doors leading in are steel in reenforced frames. Unless you know what you are looking at or saw the building going up you don't realize a couple hallways are different than the other hallways. The design spec is something like building population + 25% or something. The teachers need to learn which are shelter areas and which are not.
Nancy Howell
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Growing up in Wichita Falls, Tx, we did the same drills.
Thinking back, huddling in the halls wasn't much protection from a tornado.
Thinking back, huddling in the halls wasn't much protection from a tornado.
Yeah, take them out in the halls - with doors on
either end - can you say "WIND TUNNEL?" Let's face
it, most schools were built without a thought for
tornado shelters. Now they have areas they can't use
because the heating/air conditioning stuff is all
overhead, and would come crashing down in a serious
storm situation.
either end - can you say "WIND TUNNEL?" Let's face
it, most schools were built without a thought for
tornado shelters. Now they have areas they can't use
because the heating/air conditioning stuff is all
overhead, and would come crashing down in a serious
storm situation.
omahagreg
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In April of 1975, Omaha had a nasty one go thru! It hit a middle school, less than an hour after everyone left! I talked with a guy who was a student in that building at the time. The normal storm protocol was to go in the hall, sit down, put your head between your knees! He commented, after seeing the damage, that if they had done that they would have all been dead!
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