My heart goes out to people whom live in areas that this is an everyday occurrence. Life is hard enough with out having to worry about whether your house and family will be there tomorrow.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070505/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather;_ylt=AnNDHEccITlximhDMBqYAZSs0NUE

Yes it is very sad when a tornado strikes. I hope the survivors will get counseling for thier loss.

You know, I'm not trying to sound mean or unsensitive, but one thing that really upsets me about many of these tornado victims is that, after losing everything they own "including some family members", many of them will willingly rebuild their homes in the exact same location, knowing full well that another Tornado will eventually come roaring through their and destroy everything they own all over again.

Why they won't move to a different location after suffering such an attack is something I will never understand. :mad:

You know, I'm not trying to sound mean or unsensitive, but one thing that really upsets me about many of these tornado victims is that, after losing everything they own "including some family members", many of them will willingly rebuild their homes in the exact same location, knowing full well that another Tornado will eventually come roaring through their and destroy everything they own all over again.

Why they won't move to a different location after suffering such an attack is something I will never understand. :mad:

I don't know exactly what you are proposing. If you think moving the town a few miles over would help, you are wrong. Tornados strike relatively randomly, and would be just as likely to hit either place. Perhaps what you are proposing is to evacuate the entire area of "tornado alley". That would involve uprooting the inhabitants of almost the entire midwest. While we are at it we should also evacuate the entire east coast and gulf coast because of hurricanes, and the west coast from California up to Washington because of earthquakes. Of course a little further inland on the west coast there are numerous dormant volcano's that are still active. That area should be evacuated as well.
If we evacuated everywhere that could suffer a natural disaster, we would be evacuating the entire world. Good luck finding somewhere to put the human race.

I don't know exactly what you are proposing. If you think moving the town a few miles over would help, you are wrong. Tornados strike relatively randomly, and would be just as likely to hit either place. Perhaps what you are proposing is to evacuate the entire area of "tornado alley". That would involve uprooting the inhabitants of almost the entire midwest. While we are at it we should also evacuate the entire east coast and gulf coast because of hurricanes, and the west coast from California up to Washington because of earthquakes. Of course a little further inland on the west coast there are numerous dormant volcano's that are still active. That area should be evacuated as well.
If we evacuated everywhere that could suffer a natural disaster, we would be evacuating the entire world. Good luck finding somewhere to put the human race.

No, thats really not what I meant at all. I do understand that it would be very diffficult for many people to move anywhere, but if I lived in a area where tornadoes have a history of striking in the same location over and over again, I would do my best to move to a place where these strikes are less likely to consistantly happen :(

Tornados strike all around the globe, and have even been reported in such unlikely places as Alaska and England. They do cross mountains and rivers, despite stories to the contrary.

But no place on earth has as violent or as numerous tornadoes as the US, especially on the Great Plains, the area known as Tornado Alley.
There are other, smaller areas of the US which also have histories of multiple strikes over long periods of time--we live in one of them.

Yes, we do take the watches and warnings--"Tornado on the ground" very seriously.

One of the worst storms in US history hit just miles from where we lived at the time--the Palm Sunday outbreak of 1965.

The damage was simply indescribable. This was what Hiroshima looked like....absolute devastation.

Yet despite all this, the chances of any single individual town being hit, during a specific watch area, is very very remote. And tho the US has about 1000 tornados annually, only a very small percentage do considerable damage. Those F-4s and F-5's we all read about and have nightmares about are thankfully very rare.

Note--if you live in a trailer, and a watch or esp a warning is issued, get out. You would literally be safer standing in the open road with the full vortex bearing down upon you, than being stuck in one of those flimsy death traps.

Here's a very interesting link about tornados. I have a lifelong fascination with them.

http://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/faq/

but if I lived in a area where tornadoes have a history of striking in the same location over and over again, I would do my best to move to a place where these strikes are less likely to consistantly happen :(

Don't you live in Chicago????

Very very sad.......

My heart and prayers goto everyone..