Severe Damaging Winds and Tornados Threatens the South on Thursday February 17 SEVERE WEATHER ALERT – Thursday, February 17: Severe winds, tornados, and large hail threaten the South East in the Tennessee Valley and Alabama regions. Stay alert, be prepared, and follow your local news and weather alerts for shelter warnings. With severe weather watch…
February isn’t typically known for killer tornadoes in the South. When it comes to severe weather, it’s another weather phenomenon that gets the most attention. Snow. Even a few swirling flurries send the most hardened southerner scurrying to the grocery store for milk and bread. No, we will take that back. even the slightest mention…
EF1 Tornado strikes Wilton, NY on May 15, 2020, damage several home with 80-95 MPH wind speeds stretching 1.8 Miles on the ground.
In an emergency, when seconds count… a safe room really can save lives. Brad Jones, news anchor with Fox 8 News tours the manufacturing plant in Wilkesboro, NC where US Safe Room tornado shelters are fabricated.
Life is precarious by nature and as humans, we are incredibly resilient organisms that are capable of enduring hostile conditions. Humans are also anxious creatures. We are conditioned – primarily by the media and a biased mindset – to expect the absolute worse from our natural environment. To ease our frayed nerves, we undertake many…
It’s never too early to begin thinking about storm season. Every year, tornados wreak havoc across the heartland and southeast, racking up millions of dollars in unforeseen damage and chaos. And just because you don’t live in “Tornado Alley” doesn’t mean you are out of harm’s way. Quiet corners of America, such as Maine and…
Tornadoes aren’t supposed to happen in January. We should be lamenting the woes of more wintry weather while scavenging for a snow shovel instead of untangling a web of destruction from a tornado, as was the case at a Columbia, S.C. high school this weekend. As night descended on the hospitable southern town, residents were…
Schools were once thought to be sanctuaries for our children. These hallowed halls of learning represented much more than an indicator of a developed nation. When we saw our children step into those big, bright yellow busses, we knew they were in good hands. But times have changed. We no longer live in the American…
The onslaught of the 2019 tornado season continues as it was recently announced by FEMA officials that federal assistance for the Dayton Memorial Day twister outbreak will cease in the coming days. Killer storms have become a fact of life that we must contend with on a daily basis. Instead of a day to reflect…
In the span of an instance, more than 2 million people in Oklahoma and Texas were given what likely amounted to the most dire and sobering message they had ever heard. On Monday, the National Weather Service issued a threat level 5 out of a possible 5 scoring category for dangerous and life-threatening tornadoes. This…