It might be surprising to some---it was to me---that most of the top ten tornado states are not in the midwest. The Gulf Coast states---Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana---dominate the list, and, get this, the top tornado state is Florida. Go figure. Even wilder, Maryland is in the list. I'm pretty sure Texas and Arkansas just barely missed the top ten.
Granted, the midwest seems to have the monopoly on the monster storms.
Here in northwest Louisiana we have the small ones (an occasional F3, and rarely a brief F4) with disturbing regularity, during all times of the year. I have been through four or five myself, including one last week that was in the air over my house just before it touched down. Four have struck with a half-mile of my place since I've lived here.
We get in the bathroom, as I don't have a shelter or even anything that would serve as a shelter. I don't personally know anyone who has a shelter, but I'm sure there are some. I've thought of just digging a hole and putting a well curb or sewer-type box down in it, with a cover to just keep the varmints out. With all our trees, I sure wouldn't want a shelter with a door that opened outward. I'd rather be killed in the tornado than to starve to death.
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