Kim Bills

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Tornado Response

• Kim Bills

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The Red Cross

• When a natural disaster strikes the Red Cross
  will provide shelter, food, and emergency
  services.
• Red cross also provides blood for injured
  emergency worker and victims of a tornado.
• The Red Cross gives money donations after
  disasters.

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After the storm

• Try to help the injured people without moving the
  seriously injured.
• When emergency units come to you do exactly what
  they tell you to do.
• Check the T.V./ radio for the latest emergency
  information.

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Dos and Don'ts

• THE DONTS
• Dont Go near fallen power lines.
• Dont Use spilled medicines or gasoline. Spilled
  medicines can be dangerous and gasoline is
  flammable.
• Dont Go back into your home unless authorities
  say it is safe.

• THE DOS
• Help people
• Get to the safest place in the area/Stay away
  from disaster areas.
• If you are injured, find emergency units.
• Take pictures of the area, For insurance purposes

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What to expect.

• Tornadoes may appear nearly transparent until
  dust and debris are picked up. Stay alert for
  high winds even if you do not "see" a tornado
• Tornadoes often occur when it is not raining.
• Damage happens when wind gets inside a home
  through a broken window, door, or damaged roof.
  Keep windows closed. Houses do not explode due to
  air pressure differences. Stay away from windows
  during severe storms.
• Before a tornado listen for your communities
  warning that a tornado is near, which is usually
  a siren. And after listen to the radio for
  updates.

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The 6 kinds of tornados

• F0 and F1- F0 tornados cause little to no
  damage. F1 tornados willpeel surface off roofs
  mobile homes pushed moving autos pushed off the
  roads attached garages may be destroyed.Wind
  speed, 73-112 mph
• F2-Considerable damage. Roofs torn off frame
  houses mobile homes demolished boxcars pushed
  over large trees snapped or uprooted. Wind
  speed, 113-157 mph
• F3-Roof and some walls torn off well constructed
  houses trains overturned most trees in forest
  uprooted. Wind speed, 158-206 mph

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The 5 kinds of tornados continued

• F4---Well-constructed houses leveled structures
  with weak foundations blown off some distance
  cars thrown and large missiles generated. Wind
  speed, 207-260 mph
• F5---Strong frame houses lifted off foundations
  and carried considerable distances to
  disintegrate automobile sized missiles fly
  through the air in excess of 100 meters trees
  debarked steel re-enforced concrete structures
  badly damaged. Wind speed, 261-318 mph

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Mechanicville Tornado of 1998

• May 31st 1998 Violent tornadoes rip across
  region, smashing 25 homes and injuring at least
  16 it's a miracle no one was killed, one
  firefighter says. A resident says, it looks like
  an atomic bomb hit. Houses were on fire and it
  was a mess!
• "I thought I was going to die," said Jim Batt,
  whose apartment is only a couple hundred feet
  from the destroyed homes. "It'll be amazing if
  nobody's dead," Batt continued. "I just remember
  these loud pops when the power went out and then
  the lines just started frying. My house shook so
  bad I thought it was going to get crushed."

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The Difference between a Watch and a Warning

• A Tornado WARNING----A tornado has been spotted
  in the areaand immediate action should be taken.
  Move away from windows and outsidewalls. 
  Duration is one hour unless otherwise
  canceled.   Mercer Policestrongly advises you to
  seek shelter in theevent of a Tornado WARNING.
• A Tornado WATCH----Atmospheric conditions are
  favorablefor a tornado to possibly occur.
  Issued for 4 to 8 hoursand covers a large
  portion of the state.

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Mechanicville Tornado Pictures