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Tornadoes in Tornado Alley

Tornadoes have the potential to form basically anywhere in the world, and the US is one of the biggest countries where tornadoes form. The region most active for tornado activity is Tornado Alley, in the...

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The red section is the Southern region of Il or Southern Illinois. The small circle encompasses the three counties hit hardest by the storm. The 'x' marks where I live.71

Weathering The Storm

 Since I have so much information from before, during and after the storm to relay, I am going to break this hub into Pt. 1 and Pt. 2  Pt. 1 will deal mostly with details about the storm itself with...

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Central US is known as Tornado Alley72

Tornado Safety and Survival Tips

Tornadoes represent one of the most destructive forces in nature, materializing without warning and destroying everything in its path.  The destructive nature of a tornado can wipe entire towns off the map...

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My Tornado Experience

It's a dubious distinction to be sure, but Kansas as well as most of the mid-western plains states helps make up Tornado Alley. Now these states have other more significant things they are known for, but...

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Know How To Prepare for a Tornado

The very word 'Tornado' strikes fear into the heart of even the bravest souls. A tornado is an act of God, or a natural event or whatever else you want to call it--all of them scary. Why? Mainly because...

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Unpredictable Tornadoes

The word "tornado" comes from the Latin tonare, meaning "to thunder." The Spanish developed the word into tornear, to turn or twist. These are good descriptions of tornadoes, which are formed by rotating...

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Tales From The Badge: A Cop's Wife Tangles With The Wind

I'm not afraid of very many things, just spiders, snakes, spoiled onions, liver, chicken livers, bugs, wrinkles, dark places, and tornadoes. See, hardly worth even talking about. As a cop's wife, I kept crashing into "alone." My cop husband crashed into danger so of the two, I'll pick alone.

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Emergency Radios--AM/FM/SW and NOAA Weather Band

Choosing an emergency weather or news radio for the home or car or bug-out bag--shortwave, AM/FM, weather band, and cool features.

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MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT WITH YOUR PET

They weren't lady-like tooties. They were almost as loud as the thunder that shook the mini-van. The smell. Oh, my goodness the smell. Five people, two cats and three dogs, one of which had an extreme case of...

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A scary tornado, courtest of IOWAPILOT, flickr63

Facts about Tornadoes

A scary tornado, courtest of IOWAPILOT, flickr People have always had a fascination with tornadoes; with their impressive wind strength that is capable of driving toothpicks into tree trucks and able to lift...

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