Saturday, May 28, 2011
I'll be very blunt. If you are presented with the situation of sheltering in place during an F4 or F5 tornado in Calhoun County, Alabama, you most likely will die. The Joplin, MO tragedy put an exclamation point on this theory.
You might survive an F4. You will most definitely not survive an F5, unless you are below ground with some handles to hold onto to keep from getting sucked out of your shelter.
An F0 tornado can kill you under the proper circumstances. Even straight line winds can flatten you like a crushed beer can if a tree falls on you during the event
Seems like in my youth puffy white clouds would turn into pleasant showers and even thunderstorms off and on all summer long. Nowadays, about the only time we get good rain from Spring until Winter is when a rowdy violent squall line roars through our fair towns.
It's pretty clear now to a lot more people that simply going to the lowest floor of the house, which is most often the hall closet or interior bathtub isn't going to cut it any longer.
Even better, if you're at work, what are you going to do? Leave? And go where?
It is time in Calhoun County, Alabama that the people in charge spend some of our tax dollars to give more people more options, and that means constructing underground storm shelters where they will do the most good.
I say that this could be accomplished, from start to finish by next spring...if there were a will to do it.
In the meantime, safer locations could be identified and plans put into place to assure that they would be available to the public in times of storms. I can think of two places this very minute. One in downtown Oxford AL, and one in downtown Anniston AL that were locked when the Tuscaloosa tornado came within 20 miles of ruining our collective lives here.
I say that there is no reason for folks who want to survive to not be able to survive. If there was ever a wake up call, this season of twisters was surely it. Shelter in place is not viable when the air hits you at 200+ miles per hour.
The challenge here is that someone must step up and lead the movement to provide livable shelter for folks who want to use it when a storm is coming. It won't get done by itself, and if I'm any judge of local politics, it won't get done easily.
If it comes down to ball parks or bomb shelters, I choose the latter. We can live to play ball another day. (Of course with all this Obama money floating around, we should be able to have both.)
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Survival Information is good to know.
You might survive an F4. You will most definitely not survive an F5, unless you are below ground with some handles to hold onto to keep from getting sucked out of your shelter.
An F0 tornado can kill you under the proper circumstances. Even straight line winds can flatten you like a crushed beer can if a tree falls on you during the event
Seems like in my youth puffy white clouds would turn into pleasant showers and even thunderstorms off and on all summer long. Nowadays, about the only time we get good rain from Spring until Winter is when a rowdy violent squall line roars through our fair towns.
It's pretty clear now to a lot more people that simply going to the lowest floor of the house, which is most often the hall closet or interior bathtub isn't going to cut it any longer.
Even better, if you're at work, what are you going to do? Leave? And go where?
It is time in Calhoun County, Alabama that the people in charge spend some of our tax dollars to give more people more options, and that means constructing underground storm shelters where they will do the most good.
I say that this could be accomplished, from start to finish by next spring...if there were a will to do it.
In the meantime, safer locations could be identified and plans put into place to assure that they would be available to the public in times of storms. I can think of two places this very minute. One in downtown Oxford AL, and one in downtown Anniston AL that were locked when the Tuscaloosa tornado came within 20 miles of ruining our collective lives here.
I say that there is no reason for folks who want to survive to not be able to survive. If there was ever a wake up call, this season of twisters was surely it. Shelter in place is not viable when the air hits you at 200+ miles per hour.
The challenge here is that someone must step up and lead the movement to provide livable shelter for folks who want to use it when a storm is coming. It won't get done by itself, and if I'm any judge of local politics, it won't get done easily.
If it comes down to ball parks or bomb shelters, I choose the latter. We can live to play ball another day. (Of course with all this Obama money floating around, we should be able to have both.)
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Survival Information is good to know.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Survival Information. It's coming to your town.
Hello friends,
Norm here with your favorite Calhoun County Alabama website, GetCalhoun.com!
Awhile back I started another website called, " Survival Information ".... Well, things got hectic and I dropped it for awhile and wandered off to a new site, then another new one, etc.
Well, my last website, " ChicGirl " which is about chic girl stuff was starting to get on my manly nerves, so I set that aside so that I could recuperate with good old SurvivalInformation.net.
Well...that and the reason that I noticed that the half finished site had managed to move to the front page of Google for the search term " survival information " . This was what I was working for, but I didn't expect it to go to page on half finished! It did. ALL the other sites on there are much older and hold more "authority" with Google for one reason and another. So, I am doubly tickled!!
So I went back to work on it. I'm about 3 or 4 pages and some tweaking away from completion.
A favor. How about stopping by SurvivalInformation.net and let me know how I'm doing. I'd appreciate any realistic suggestions. I believe it will move on up in the listings once it is completed. I wrote it that way.
But did I write it to be interesting to folks looking for that kind of stuff on the net? Let me know.
You can comment right here.
Thanks
Norm
Hello friends,
Norm here with your favorite Calhoun County Alabama website, GetCalhoun.com!
Awhile back I started another website called, " Survival Information ".... Well, things got hectic and I dropped it for awhile and wandered off to a new site, then another new one, etc.
Well, my last website, " ChicGirl " which is about chic girl stuff was starting to get on my manly nerves, so I set that aside so that I could recuperate with good old SurvivalInformation.net.
Well...that and the reason that I noticed that the half finished site had managed to move to the front page of Google for the search term " survival information " . This was what I was working for, but I didn't expect it to go to page on half finished! It did. ALL the other sites on there are much older and hold more "authority" with Google for one reason and another. So, I am doubly tickled!!
So I went back to work on it. I'm about 3 or 4 pages and some tweaking away from completion.
A favor. How about stopping by SurvivalInformation.net and let me know how I'm doing. I'd appreciate any realistic suggestions. I believe it will move on up in the listings once it is completed. I wrote it that way.
But did I write it to be interesting to folks looking for that kind of stuff on the net? Let me know.
You can comment right here.
Thanks
Norm
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Internet Marketing Training, a service provided by Norm with GetCalhoun.com, can be found near the top of page one for the search term, "internet marketing training." Check out the screen shot below. Note that I am in position #2 and #4 out of 71,000,000 results.
So what does it prove? It proves that I do for myself what I can help you do for yourself. No brag, all fact. The results speak for themselves. Click the screenshot below to check out my training offer for yourself!
So what does it prove? It proves that I do for myself what I can help you do for yourself. No brag, all fact. The results speak for themselves. Click the screenshot below to check out my training offer for yourself!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Does Anniston Alabama have a tornado safety plan other than going to the lowest floor in your house?
I have lived here all of my life and I don't know of one. This is a fairly strange thing, considering that nearby Jacksonville, AL serves as the hub of the local Emergency Management Agency.
It is a fact that everything changed after the Palm Sunday Tornado of 1994. I was there. Well, I wasn't at Goshen, thank God, but I was at the center of the information tornado, as I was in the control room of the local television station.
I had been looking at a lone little red blob of color that had been moving steadily northeast all morning on radar. I had a really bad feeling that morning. No reason really. There wasn't a single clue that the little red blob would decide to drop a tornado and kill a bunch of people above Piedmont. But something just didn't feel right.
When it happened, all hell broke loose. You see, it was such an oddball event that nobody who was supposed to be prepared...was prepared. In and out, down and up. Many dead.
After that, everything changed. That's when warning sirens popped up everywhere. Spann ascended at ABC3340, changing how weather was reported across all television stations in Alabama. The weather service turned their weather sensitivity knobs up so high that forevermore, they were seeing tornadoes in innocuous summer showers. You know how it is.
The one thing that didn't change was just what to do when a tornado sets its sights on you. You see, and will agree that it does absolutely no good to have a full day of warning if you have nowhere to go when a twister descends on you.
When even an EF1 tornado or strong straight line winds can and will kill you very dead, you have very little chance of survival when an F4 tears through where you are. The difference between an F4 and an F5 tornado is that an F4 leaves piles of rubble where homes were. An F5 leaves nothing...just a shadow or an empty cement pad.
The only way to successfully survive an F4 or and F5 tornado is to be several feet underneath the ground. Funny that. If you don't get underground when a large tornado hits, you will get underground after. One way, you will continue to breathe and enjoy life, and the other way you will not.
The problem for most of us is that "shelter in place" is not a good option during a tornado. The Cullman tornado demolished even strong, old, brick buildings.
We, or at least I, have always expected our city leaders, who are paid to do such things, to come up with places that we can go shelter when the weather turns bad. Then, the bad weather moves on along and the sun comes out, and nothing is ever done.
I believe there should be more options than "shelter and die in place."
I believe that if the people we pay to come up with alternate plans (as in whether we live or die) won't take care of business, then we, the Anniston and Oxford "street" should take care of it ourselves.
But first, we should finally, and once and for all ask the people who are in charge of public safety to step up to the challenge to identify and make available places for us to go when we know we're going to die if we don't.
I can personally think of two places that offer the chance for life that were padlocked on that recent and historical tornado day.
I'm not asking for the gubment to guarantee survival and sunny days. That is foolish. But what they could do is to put together a list of places that are survivable during a tornado and see to it that these places are made available...as in neighbor helping neighbor. A cooperation. A plan.
Identifying existing sites that can be used for storm shelters, making sure that they are open, and getting the plan in front of the citizens will cost little or nothing to implement, other than a little time.
The whole thing could be done by volunteers for that matter, if officially empowered.
I say, "Let's get to work."
I have lived here all of my life and I don't know of one. This is a fairly strange thing, considering that nearby Jacksonville, AL serves as the hub of the local Emergency Management Agency.
It is a fact that everything changed after the Palm Sunday Tornado of 1994. I was there. Well, I wasn't at Goshen, thank God, but I was at the center of the information tornado, as I was in the control room of the local television station.
I had been looking at a lone little red blob of color that had been moving steadily northeast all morning on radar. I had a really bad feeling that morning. No reason really. There wasn't a single clue that the little red blob would decide to drop a tornado and kill a bunch of people above Piedmont. But something just didn't feel right.
When it happened, all hell broke loose. You see, it was such an oddball event that nobody who was supposed to be prepared...was prepared. In and out, down and up. Many dead.
After that, everything changed. That's when warning sirens popped up everywhere. Spann ascended at ABC3340, changing how weather was reported across all television stations in Alabama. The weather service turned their weather sensitivity knobs up so high that forevermore, they were seeing tornadoes in innocuous summer showers. You know how it is.
The one thing that didn't change was just what to do when a tornado sets its sights on you. You see, and will agree that it does absolutely no good to have a full day of warning if you have nowhere to go when a twister descends on you.
When even an EF1 tornado or strong straight line winds can and will kill you very dead, you have very little chance of survival when an F4 tears through where you are. The difference between an F4 and an F5 tornado is that an F4 leaves piles of rubble where homes were. An F5 leaves nothing...just a shadow or an empty cement pad.
The only way to successfully survive an F4 or and F5 tornado is to be several feet underneath the ground. Funny that. If you don't get underground when a large tornado hits, you will get underground after. One way, you will continue to breathe and enjoy life, and the other way you will not.
The problem for most of us is that "shelter in place" is not a good option during a tornado. The Cullman tornado demolished even strong, old, brick buildings.
We, or at least I, have always expected our city leaders, who are paid to do such things, to come up with places that we can go shelter when the weather turns bad. Then, the bad weather moves on along and the sun comes out, and nothing is ever done.
I believe there should be more options than "shelter and die in place."
I believe that if the people we pay to come up with alternate plans (as in whether we live or die) won't take care of business, then we, the Anniston and Oxford "street" should take care of it ourselves.
But first, we should finally, and once and for all ask the people who are in charge of public safety to step up to the challenge to identify and make available places for us to go when we know we're going to die if we don't.
I can personally think of two places that offer the chance for life that were padlocked on that recent and historical tornado day.
I'm not asking for the gubment to guarantee survival and sunny days. That is foolish. But what they could do is to put together a list of places that are survivable during a tornado and see to it that these places are made available...as in neighbor helping neighbor. A cooperation. A plan.
Identifying existing sites that can be used for storm shelters, making sure that they are open, and getting the plan in front of the citizens will cost little or nothing to implement, other than a little time.
The whole thing could be done by volunteers for that matter, if officially empowered.
I say, "Let's get to work."
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