Sometimes the Oklahoma meterologists
can be irresponsible. Yesterday some of them were telling people to evacuate and drive away from the storm, north or south. As I was evacuating I was listening to the storm coverage over the radio and they acted shocked about the amount of traffic caused by people trying to evacuate away from the storm. Later on in the evening, the station I was listening to was telling people not to go anywhere and to stay where they were. They seem to have forgotten that they were the ones that, essentially, yelled the tornado equivalent of FIRE to a city full of people. I talked with a friend this morning who also evacuated and her and her husband agree with me that, if this happens again, we will just stay home. I would rather go down with the house then go through what I did last night again. Road flooding was horrific. They were saying that several police cars got caught in it.
They lost some credibility points last night. Wind and flooding were the biggest dangers last night and staying home (in a storm shelter if you have one) was the better course of action then getting out on the roads. This was my first and last storm evacuation.
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That was the first time I can remember that people were told to "run for your life" to avoid a tornado. I can understand evacuating for hurricanes, when you have some notice, but never for a tornado.
since I moved to my current house that it really did look like a storm would hit it or very close by. Every other time the storms were north, south, east or west of my house and I was never that concerned about my house. I had no time to think about things but to just grab my furbabies and get out of there. It could have been much worse but the storm started to move more southeasterly which pulled us just enough south of my house that all I probably got here was a ton of rain and winds.
It is a fact that there are times that our meteorologists are good and then there times that they have drunk the kool-aid and either totally misread a weather event or gave bad advice like they did last night. It is kind of insult to injury for them to start telling people - if you don't have a shelter you need to get out of there now, drive north, drive south - and then act totally amazed when the roads/highways become filled up with people trying to flee a storm.
Having now experienced the joys (
) of trying to outrace a storm, I will be hunkering down in place in the future. If I absolutely must evacuate, I will load up my furbabies, drive to my office, sneak my babies in the building and hunker down in the basement.
