For the Mid-Westerners of ATOT...

[God On Alcohol]

Why do you live in Tornado Alley?

 

[Heisenberg]

Why do people live in hurricane zones? Or in areas vulnerable to tsunami's? Anywhere you go, Mother Nature can get you one way or the other.

 

[sharkeeper]

Because living the alley beats living in the gutter!

 

[effowe]

I live in Chicago, no tornado's in the city. Those are in the burbs.

 

[Steve]

Is Chicago in Tornado Alley?

 

[Praetor]

Because it's far away from you.

 

[Juice Box]

From the south burbs of Chi-Town....going to U of Illinois now in Champaign

 

[raz3000]

I don't think there's no tornadoes anywhere near Chicago. I've lived here since '90.

 

[sharkeeper]

Tornado alley stretches from the upper plains of the Dakotas through central Texas.

Tornadoes can occur just about any time and anywhere.

Washington DC is truly a natural disaster free zone. Before 9/11 we said disaster free.

 

[Specop 007]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Because living the alley beats living in the gutter!

Best reply EVAR! :beer:

 

[Specop 007]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Tornado alley stretches from the upper plains of the Dakotas through central Texas.

Tornadoes can occur just about any time and anywhere.

Washington DC is truly a natural disaster free zone. Before 9/11 we said disaster free.

Its also a liberty free zone too. You can keep it.

 

[PurdueRy]

close enough, yes I do. Because its where my school is

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

because tornados affect a few people, not millions. the midwest is a big place

 

[amdskip]

West central Illinois/West north Illinois for me, been here all my life. They happen but the warning systems work and give us time to take cover.

 

[Beller0ph1]

Tornado width ~ 100 meters. Hurricane width ~ Gulf of Mexico.

 

[KillerCharlie]

We just had a tornado in our town two days ago! It was right before the Iowa State - Colorado football game too. They had to evacuate everyone into the nearby basketball arena. One touched down at the edge of town, but it only demolished one house. In a town a ways away, half the town was leveled. In my home town, our house and every house west of it is about 100 years old, while every house east of ours is about 30 years old--a tornado destroyed them all 30 years ago. That said, chances of your house getting by a tornado are EXTREMELY rare.

Everywhere pretty much sucks. The west coast has earthquakes (and everything is ridiculously overpriced). The southwest and south is too hot. The southern east coast has hurricanes. I guess the northeast doesn't have much though.

 

[waggy]

because the odds on a tornado hitting me is very slim. If the wearther is right i just go to the basement and watch tv and listen to the police scanner.

 

[KillerCharlie]

Originally posted by: Beller0ph1
Tornado width ~ 100 meters. Hurricane width ~ Gulf of Mexico.

Winds in Cat5 (biggest) hurricane: 156 mph
Winds in Cat6 (biggest) tornado: 330 mph

Hurricanes are big, but pathetically weak compared to tornadoes.

A solidly built house should be able to stand a bad hurricane. The same house will be 100% leveled in a bad tornado.

Add to that the fact that 100mph winds in a tornado are more damaging than 100mph winds in a hurricane because it's not straightline wind.

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
I guess the northeast doesn't have much though.

I was visiting friends in Rhode Island about 15 years ago when Hurricane Bob hit New England. Lots of damage in that one. It doesn't happen often, but it can happen. And the damage from one hurricane can easily top the damage from hundreds of tornados combined.

 

[ElMonoDelMar]

Lived in central Illinois for 20 year and have never been hit by a tornado.

 

[ElMonoDelMar]

Originally posted by: Juice Box
From the south burbs of Chi-Town....going to U of Illinois now in Champaign

LOL! My roommate went to your HS!

 

[shortylickens]

The last tornado to actually hit Minnesota was in either 1909 or 1919. Ever since then we seem to avoid the destruction somehow.

And I understand things are so much better is Boston, what with all the drunken micks beating their wives constantly. But as I don?t intend to have a dysfunctional home life, I see no benefit for my family.

 

[vi edit]

A better comparison would be:

"For the Mid-Westerners of ATOT....
Why do you live on the Mississippi flood plain?"

You could probably add up all of the economic loss caused by tornados in the midwest in last 20 years and it wouldn't even be a drop in the proverbial bucket of what Katrina/Rita have cost us.

 

[Sukhoi]

I like the fun of storms. Nothing like riding your bike back as fast as possible from farmland to avoid dying.

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: Juice Box
From the south burbs of Chi-Town....going to U of Illinois now in Champaign

another U of I ATOTer here

I am in Champaign as well, I haven't seen one here, but I have heard the tornado sirens a few times...