{"id":357778,"date":"2018-04-21T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/its-tornado-time-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T09:23:09","slug":"its-tornado-time-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/its-tornado-time-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Tornado Time &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>For an entire week leading up to the April 2011 storms and tornados that devastated parts of my town and Northern Alabama in general, the local weather forecasters gave us warnings.<\/p>\n<p>We were told to be ready for tornado survival because they\u00a0saw the emerging weather pattern as it travelled across the country\u00a0and how dangerous it would likely\u00a0be. Fortunately, my family knew how to survive a tornado, but all too often, people are caught by surprise.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LpWbNcfTVik\" width=\"600\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In our case, we were fortunate that our weather forecaster was taking the incoming storm seriously and you should know that if your local weather experts start talking like this, you need to start planning ahead. Many storms won\u2019t give that much warning, but staying weather aware will give you enough lead time (usually hours at least) to enact your pre-determined tornado plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">If you live in an area that is vulnerable to\u00a0<a title=\"11 Lessons the Joplin Tornadoes Taught Our Family\" href=\"https:\/\/thesurvivalmom.com\/11-lessons-the-joplin-tornadoes-taught-our-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tornadoes, such as the Joplin, Missouri area,<\/a>\u00a0you have undoubtedly heard the advice to head to your shelter or basement as a severe storm approaches. Tornadoes are such violent events that it\u2019s surprising just how many people haven\u2019t given much thought about tornado survival or where they might find shelter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So what do you do if you don\u2019t have a shelter or a basement?<span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Midland-GXT1000VP4-36-Mile-50-Channel-Two-Way\/dp\/B001WMFYH4?psc=1&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=B001WMFYH4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41XbIQv63VL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Midland-GXT1000VP4-36-Mile-50-Channel-Two-Way\/dp\/B001WMFYH4?psc=1&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=B001WMFYH4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Midland GXT1000VP4 36-&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\"\/><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$55.24<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$64.99<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 02:50 EDT &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=B001WMFYH4&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>1. Go to a friend\u2019s house to survive an oncoming tornado<\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Consider leaving your home and staying with a friend who has a shelter or basement. Of course, you must ask first! Don\u2019t just assume there will be space for you or that they will even be home. If you\u2019re invited to stay with your friend, you don\u2019t want to be a burden, so bring enough food and water to last your family a minimum of three days. Be&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/04\/no_author\/its-tornado-time\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an entire week leading up to the April 2011 storms and tornados that devastated parts of my town and Northern Alabama in general, the local weather forecasters gave us warnings. We were told to be ready for tornado survival because they\u00a0saw the emerging weather pattern as it travelled across the country\u00a0and how dangerous it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}