Currently I live with my wife and 3 girls in Florida. As long as we get live weather updates, we know when to bunker down for a hurricane or tornado. But what do we do when the lights go out when there's nobody running the NOAA or SPC at the government office? How will we know when a storm is coming?
What about you preppers in Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Kansas, Kentucky? How do you know when a tornado is coming without the NOAA warning you? Are you worried?
My family has a bugout (really a vacation home) in Idaho. I know realistically in an actual SHTF situation we'll never make it out there in time so we're looking to buy a property in Kentucky. But my wife is worried about storms.
Any suggestions to calm her?
Quoting: The Deplorable Nicomachus You really need a basement. Or, get a root cellar/storm shelter in the ground. There are companies that have drop-in-the-ground ready storm shelters that can be installed on your property.
Learn to pay attention to the sky, and the humidity. Right now start watching different weather channels either on TV or on internet. Watch how weather cold fronts from the north collide into the weather coming up out of the gulf.
I lived through the terrible tornadoes in April 1974. The weather had been cold, then a warm front comes through...the air smells different and the humidity gets up. It might be windy, at first, then it gets calm, then the wind will pick up again. Now, there are days when it 'feels' like tornado weather.
Get a weather radio, and, as I previously stated you will need either a partial basement or a dug out root cellar type of shelter.
There will be no bugging out. We will all have to shelter in place.
