Tornado disaster

goatlady · #1 03/03/12, 04:44 PM

Just found out an internet friend on another forum, in KY, Just lost her house, her barn, her vehicles, her animals, everything she had from this morning's tormado through her hollow. Belle was a prepper extroidinair with years and years of prepping under her belt, all gone in a heartbeat. How the heck CAN one prep for something like this?

secretcreek · #2 03/03/12, 06:45 PM

I suppose you can try to have your stores in more than once place, but you can't guess you'll have a tornado. I feel so bad for her, her family, her loss of home, barn and animals...

jamala · #3 03/03/12, 06:58 PM

How sad, this is one thing I worry about prepping for, the only way I can figure to prep for this would be to have an underground shelter to place preps in.

goatlady · #4 03/03/12, 07:16 PM

Just found out she used to post here as Gayle in KY.

awhobert7 · #5 03/03/12, 07:20 PM

I know her we live in the same county.

stargazer · #6 03/03/12, 07:23 PM

That is such a terrible loss. So, so sad to lose everything you have. These storms have been devastating to so many people.

okiemom · #7 03/03/12, 07:23 PM

as a prepper she was still way ahead. because of her spirit she will be fine with time. neighbors and local people really do come through in the end and she will (or has already) helped others in need and will reap as she sows. Life can be cruel and unjust. real strength comes from perserverance.

I am so sorry for her loss. I hope she can find a few things close by. In disaster there can come blessings.

Texasdirtdigger · #8 03/03/12, 07:24 PM

I am so sorry to hear this.
Only best wishes for her.

Terrco · #9 03/03/12, 07:31 PM

If you can find out her needs, I have people asking if they can help. My Facebook page is Real Economic Survival. I'm sure they'd all be willing to help this family.

Thanks.

AngieM2 · #10 03/03/12, 07:34 PM

I am so sorry to hear of her problems and losses from yesterday's severe weather.

bourbonred · #11 03/03/12, 07:55 PM

I don't know which county she was from, but my that was an impressive storm. It didn't hit here, but a couple counties over it did massive damage.

tkrabec · #12 03/04/12, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by jamala

How sad, this is one thing I worry about prepping for, the only way I can figure to prep for this would be to have an underground shelter to place preps in.

that is my goal is to have an earth sheltered house. it will protect against hurricanes & tornadoes as well as some wildfire threats. Also an earth sheltered barn would be cool.

NamasteMama · #13 03/04/12, 09:37 AM

Wouldn't an underground shelter help in this situation? i don't live where there are tornado, but one of my employees called me from inside her closet very panicked the other day. My prayers go out to all of those who are dealing with this now.

AngieM2 · #14 03/04/12, 09:52 AM

Tornado shelters cost in the thousands of $$. Not all of us have that money.

But the shelter people and shelter hucksters are both doing well this last year.

My parent's house has a on smallest side, never used, septic tank with a door where the top would be. Then rest earth beamed with the backside to the direction the tornado's usually come from. It was with the house when they bought it.

Where I live, I don't own the land, so I cannot do anything to it.
Small mobile home park, and you either ride it out and pray a lot, or get out to somewhere else and hope it's there when you come back.
Just the facts of reality of living down here.

MO_cows · #15 03/04/12, 10:31 AM

Hate to hear that. The structures and vehicles were hopefully insured. The animals, a tough loss both emotionally and financially. Hopefully this is where the community ties come in to get her some help to clean up the debris. Heard on the news, the little town in Kansas that wsa destroyed by tornadoes earlier in the same outbreak has had to turn away volunteers. People coming from miles around to lend a hand, so hopefully that will be the case for her area.

wagvan · #16 03/04/12, 10:28 PM

Angie, does your mobile home park not have a community house with a basement? We bought a mobile home from Scott's aunt in order to save money to buy a house. I have many good memories of sitting with our tornado bags (Hey, I was a prepper before I knew anything!) with all the old folks in the park in the park building's basement. I can not imagine being anywhere with tornados and not getting underground. Our basement is a 130 year old spidery stone cellar (what is called a Michigan basement around here...) but that was one of my major house buying requirements is that we have a basement. I get that you don't own your land, and that prefab storm cellars are big money. But I think I would be hand digging and putting sand bags on the sides of the hole, to make a simple DIY storm cellar/root cellar before I did anything else.

Actually, I have been wondering what do you do when you are hit like that.

Also, since we have an 130 yo double wall brick house. I really worry what would happen if we were in the basement if we got a direct tornado hit or even a bad earthquake. (There is a not very active fault under Lake Erie) Would we be squished? Should we try to build some sort of reinforced shelter within the basement envelope? And yeah, like most folks money is an issue. But we could maybe scavenge what is needed building supplies-wise.

Sending up prayers for all those affected. And money going to UMCOR for this from our church offering today. From what I understand, they already have boots on the ground.

texican · #17 03/04/12, 10:38 PM

Prepping for tornadoes...
I'll have something to work on (assigned daydreaming time) this week...
initial thoughts are get at a shipping container, 'bury' it in a gully next to the goat barn, paint it down with tar, and backfill with gravel next to the sides, and have drainage underneath.... so if the freight train cometh, run the goats and dogs inside and close the doors. (basically the old lying in a ditch scenario, upgraded)

Cindy in KY · #18 03/05/12, 06:31 AM

They posted on another forum Gayle is in Menefee County, just west of East Liberty, in eastern KY. I thought about her all day yesterday. Gayle has been on here since the very beginning. I am very thankful she and her family are OK. I can not image loosing animals.

We have always wanted steel quansets as our house and barns. If I had it to do over again, it would be underground with cement and anything above ground steel quansets. In the pictures of the Tuscaloosa tornado damage, there was a steel quanset standing among all the stick piles. I mean, a direct hit might take it down, but it would fare good with just flying debris.