“Fujitsu scale” 😂😂

@@MrYabber lol. i completely forgot to add my thought about Fujitsu is a camera company among other things, Fujita was a guy who made a scale.

When an area of my town got hit, they had about 3 minutes to get to shelter before the tornado touched down. A lot of people were in their beds and got killed because they never woke up due to no sirens and not hearing the warning go out.

Not to mention, no barn would have survived that, either. Horrific to imagine.

I think what's being hoped for in such a situation is that the animals will scatter thereby having at least some of them survive. If you put them all inside an enclosure and that enclosure gets wrecked, then you've just increased the likelihood that all your animals will be killed.

A few days late with my comment, but I agree with what you said regarding cattle. However, I live about 30 miles from Jarrell, and there is no way to have an underground shelter here without jackhammering feet of limestone, and paying tens of thousands for it. We also don't have basements. The best we can do is an interior room with no windows (usually a bathroom or closet). Granted, all of Texas is very diverse as far as soil depth goes, but near me in Central Texas, I'm hitting bedrock within a foot or 2 of digging.

Yeah, they mentioned that there was bedrock just beneath something - was it the asphalt?

​@@cindymatthewsarrowdalearts6449I think was in a plowed field. The tornado removed 18 inches of soil to reveal the bedrock.

@@jefferyshute6641 Yep, I remember now you say it. :)

Those stories are wrong. They vastly overestimate the size of the individual pieces of remains that were found. IIRC, one report said that the largest bits of human remains that were found was the size of the last joint of a thumb. Others stated that there was a great deal of difficulty differentiating between human remains and animal/livestock remains due to how thoroughly the tornado "granulated" all debris found in it.

@@rdfox76 well that's what I've heard in my life and fireman or rescue squad member that was interviewed about that day and he said that he doesn't want to talk about it because it was traumatizing for him.

@@siltstridersftwyou are correct. I live 20 miles from Jarrel and none of the 1st responders want to discuss it….the fact that the foundations were all that was left should tell you what the bodies of the 27 lives lost would have been like

This was what I was going to say. Plus, in this scenario. He was not home, they stated . Lucky for him

Same here. I remember watching a channel near us showing the track of the tornado and the debris field.

Luckily, not in the spots where the most damage was

I was rolling at that! 🤣

@@thamertanner5448 So was I, while I was typing it.😆

That is true, although we now have all of the media that talks about them, where at that time some who lived in small communities might not have heard much about them.

I've actually put some thought into this. I have lived near Jarell (by Texas measures) all my life. After this tornado, the same storm dropped two smaller tornadoes within a mile of my house, on north and one south. I pay attention to the warnings, recommendations, and reasons behind them. In nearly every other tornado event, the two worst places are in a vehicle or under an overpass. Except for rare monsters like this one, an interior room in a solidly built house is your best chance if you don't have a storm shelter. You are stuck on roads with a limited path of movement. A tornado can take a straight shot across the land and most are much faster than Jarrell. They can also pull back up into the clouds to leap frog across the ground. Don't gamble on predicting the wind. Also weather that usually accompanies a twister is bad enough to blow over 18 wheelers and the rain reduces visibility to mere feet in front of your car. If that twister heads towards you, you would be trapped in an exposed, raised box that would be battered from all sides, including the undercarriage. You would be safer laying flat on the ground, in the open. There are actually people who have survived minor tornados passing directly over them by clinging to trees and vegetation while doing this.

@@cblynn485 Not relevant. I didn't say to get hit by a tornado when in a car. It is SAFER being in a car NOT being hit by a tornado than in a house that IS being hit by a tornado. THAT is pure unassailable logic.

Some of the homes mentioned in this video were literally well built brick homes. Wind / air doesn't care. In some cases, everything, including stone, was demolished down to bedrock. Tornadoes can happen anywhere and you can't always build underground because of the local water table. Making wide sweeping generalizations does no good. If you feel that passionate about tornado safety, try educating yourself more on the subject. The more people working toward providing better warning systems and shelters, the more lives can potentially be saved.