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[cvobiker]

 Think I'll stay put in California and deal with the earth quakes....

[porthole]

So, a bridge overpass is no good?
If you can get up in the girders that is no good?

Laying down in a ditch is OK?

I'll take my chances in the bridge girder - if I could get to it.

[Big Dog]

I cannot imagine what you folks go through during the hurricane season, we see nothing like that here in BC. I've only seen "push winds" and the tornado that touched down while I lived in Alberta (Pine Lake tornado that killed 14 people) near Red Deer where I lived and the Edmonton tornado that also took lives and that was shocking enough, I couldn't imagine being on a bike and having to run for cover in a culvert, my luck a flash flood would wash me out. I've been in a pea size hail storm with a half helmet and that was enough for me to duck for cover.

[fresh oil and pipes]

So, a bridge overpass is no good?
If you can get up in the girders that is no good?

Laying down in a ditch is OK?

I'll take my chances in the bridge girder - if I could get to it.

Was search and rescue for the early parts of the May 3 set up triage in a school gym full of injured, fatalities we put in the cafeteria. Took 2 days to find the mother that got sucked out from under the overpass. Took her left her son found her approximately 3 miles away. Girders/Overpasses not good, ditch good if not full of water, tin horns full of critters seeking shelter as well maybe good maybe bad. In Oklahoma you can always pull into a home if they have a shelter they will share bike prob leave without you but you be safe.

[fresh oil and pipes]

For those heading across Oklahoma for Ribfest. Weather forecast is no rain chance until next Tuesday which is the 8th then only 20 per cent looks like a safe uneventfull trip through here.

[TN]

What do you do when you see a Tornado coming.



fetal position. 

[Twolanerider]

What do you do when you see a Tornado coming.



fetal position. 

And if it's too close; fecal position    .

[Keats]

So, a bridge overpass is no good?
If you can get up in the girders that is no good?

Laying down in a ditch is OK?

I'll take my chances in the bridge girder - if I could get to it.

I am with Duane on this one.

stuck in car with no structure around I will bet on the overpass super structure. I have never seen pictures of one those being lifted off.
Yes I believe that underneath would be a venturi and remember "it is not that the wind is blowing, but what the wind is blowing".

The steel structure (in between the girders) would give protection and I do not believe there is enough negative pressure to be able to suck you out of the steel structure.

Laying on the ground would minimize your lateral exposure to flying debris, but the ability of the tornado passing right above you and not turn you into a UFO would weigh heavy on my decision.   I am under the bridge between the steel girders......did you notice that they did live....  

[TinSpinner]

I was driving across Texas in my younger days and crossed paths with a tornado on Hwy. 10 east of Houston. My buddy and I didn't know any better so we stopped under a bridge and climbed up onto the girders. The twister crossed the interstate just ahead of the bridge. We survived without injury but there was all kinds of trash flying up under the bridge. I can see how that could be a hazard if the debris were larger than what we encountered. We got plenty nasty from all the road grime that went airborne, not to mention the bird poop we were lying in. I don't think I would repeat that, hope I don't have to, but it made sense at the time. Here in Georgia we get pop up twisters that you can't see coming until they are right on top of us. Had one 4 years ago on Mothers Day that took out about a dozen grand old oak trees at my house. Thankfully none hit the house and no one was injured.

[GtreetSlide]

Set up your GPS to locate churches and trailer parks. The line that most directly impacts the most of them is the path you want to avoid...