Stay safe. Do you guys have a basement? If not, there are tornado safe rooms for above and below ground that aren’t that bad cost wise. Might be worth a look see/research.
I have this concern for our health center too. We weren’t able to get a basement for that building too much rock, would have had to dynamite it, and couldn’t do that. I have been nagging the CEO to get tornado strengthening every time we add on to the building.
He’s finally looking at it a little more seriously, this last one hit about a mile away, the sirens sounded, and several cars were damaged from the debri flying around the parking lot.
I just keep repeating over and over our employees and patients lives are priceless - no expense is more important than that. We did find that an inside hallway could be hardened enough to with stand an EF4.
You all stay safe.
We don't have basements in this part of Texas. Our water table is too close to the surface.
Here at this house, Bob says there is a spring barely underground in this backyard. He says if he dug no more than three feet down at that place, there would be water. He had to put in a French drain at one place to keep water from rising. The worst place is behind the garage - the soil is slightly mushy, not solid. You can feel the mush, your shoes depress the surface when walking on it.
The only good point of this is, should an emergency destroy our water service, just dig down back there and there is the water. Having a Berkey water purifier, we will always have pure water.
The hallway in this house is the safest place to be. No windows on any side of that hall. Yesterday, when this storm was coming, I put on jeans/shirt/older good walking shoes, and if our town siren had gone off, I would put cushions and water and flashlights and my purse in that hallway. The siren did not go off.
There was damage southwest of us but haven't heard of anyone hurt. The news showed big trees down, houses hit by these trees, and at least one car totally smashed by falling tree. At its worst, straight line winds were 100 miles per hour.
Thousands in that area, plus in the Fort Worth area where Johnny is, power went out and he lost power for a couple of hours but he had backup emergency power.
That was a pretty rough storm for our county.
I've got the battery bulk charged up enough to let the charge controller and panel take over.
I think I've got it set right. The worst that could happen is that everything could burst into flames. Did I ever mention that I hate aligning equipment? ;)
/johnny