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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RandyDSok" data-source="post: 149831" data-attributes="member: 201">Hurricanes affect such a wider area ( statewide or more ), includes high winds, tornadoes and flooding and last for hours battering the areas they affect.... To get away from one, you may have to drive hours or states away.The main downside to tornadoes are how quickly they can spin up but most of the time ( if you are paying attention to the weather forecasters ) you'll get typically a 20-30 minute warning that one is or has developed. The tornadoes themselves only affect a relatively narrow path and are usually short lived. While a line of storms can be pretty broad, the supercells within the line are relatively small ( compared to a hurricane ) and if you wanted to use Geena's method... you could drive out of their way usually within 30 minutes or less if you have no other options for shelter.Neither type of storm is fun if you are threatened by them... Both have one way to protect yourself and that is to plan ahead and pay attention to the weather. The storms from last night in Tony and my area, had been going all afternoon and I watched all day ( well, started watching about 3:30pm when they started firing up ). I'd planned that if the circulation was going to reach a certain town to my west, that I'd take shelter. When it made it to that town, even though I thought it'd die out ( there was a cold front just about to kill the threat of tornadoes ), I still followed my plan and headed for the shelter I had available 3 miles away. It was just as well that I left, the rotation in question got pushed out ahead of the cold front and went further than I'd expected.I think I'm more afraid of how much hype the news stations are going to make about a storm... than the storm itself... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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