Tornado in Kansas

Top Travel Tips for Touring the Midwest:

• Consider avoiding travel to Texas, Kansas and Nebraska during the Spring.  Although this is a gorgeous time of year, it is also the time for tornadoes.  I can personally attest to the fact that May is a particularly bad month for tornado activity in Nebraska.  My family and I spent many a May evening huddled into our basement, after hearing the tornado warning sirens alerting the community of impending danger.

• Should you find yourself in the path of a tornado, for God's sake take shelter!  It is best to go into a basement, finding a room that does not have a window.  If there is not a basement to be found in your building, then move to the ground floor and find a closet or possibly a bathroom without a window.  If it is the bathroom that is your only choice climb into the bathtub and pray that the tornado does not find its way to your door.
• They say that if you are in a car and you spot a tornado you should get out of the car and lay flat in a ditch.  To be honest with you, my reaction in this situation would be to drive away from the tornado as fast as I could.  Obviously, this is not sound advice as it could lead to a terrible road mishap and I would hate to think that I have caused you to act in error.
• Interested in storm chasing? You must be mad, but I admire your bravery (or stupidity).  Apparently there are many Storm Chasing Holidays on offer in the states, but I will not list them here as I would hate to be an advocate of bad decision making.

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